Classic Fiction

Dickens’ most autobiographical novel follows David from a difficult childhood through hardship, friendship, and eventual success.

A poor New England farmer’s loveless marriage and forbidden love collide in a single, devastating sled ride.

A steamboat captain journeys up the Congo to retrieve the mysterious, revered, and increasingly unhinged Mr Kurtz.

A young officer abandons a sinking ship full of pilgrims and spends the rest of his life trying to outrun the shame of it.

A wrongly accused weaver withdraws from the world entirely, until an abandoned child gives him a reason to rejoin it.

A young woman’s life is destroyed by one night’s crime and the hypocrisy of the men who judge her for it, in Hardy’s bleakest tragedy.