Classic Fiction

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

An orphan boy’s mysterious benefactor transforms his life, in Dickens’ sweeping tale of ambition, guilt, and the true meaning of being a gentleman.

Two very different women, one scheming and one saintly, navigate Regency society without a single hero to root for — Thackeray’s ‘novel without a hero’.

A miserly old man is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve and shown what his life has cost him — and what it could still become.

Martian war machines land in the English countryside, and nothing humanity builds can stop them — except, in the end, the smallest thing.

An orphan escapes the workhouse only to fall in with a den of London pickpockets run by the cunning Fagin.

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.

A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible and quickly finds that invisibility is a far better weapon than a way of life.