Crime and Punishment
£1.99A destitute former student murders a pawnbroker to test his own theory of moral exceptionalism, then can’t outrun his conscience.
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A destitute former student murders a pawnbroker to test his own theory of moral exceptionalism, then can’t outrun his conscience.

A girl follows a waistcoated rabbit down a hole into a world of riddles, shrinking cakes, and a short-tempered Queen of Hearts.

Betrayed and imprisoned on false charges, Edmond Dantès escapes to claim a fortune and methodically destroy the men who ruined him.

A web of marriages, ambitions, and disappointments in a provincial English town, centred on idealistic Dorothea Brooke’s disastrous first marriage.

A scientist assembles life from dead matter and recoils in horror from what he’s created, setting off a chase across the frozen north.

Twelve of the original Sherlock Holmes short stories, from ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’ to ‘The Final Problem’ — deduction as entertainment.

A plain, fiercely independent governess falls for her brooding employer, only to discover the secret locked in his attic.

Four sisters grow up during and after the Civil War, each chasing a different idea of what it means to become a woman.

A Transylvanian count sails to England with a taste for blood, hunted by Van Helsing and a small band of the sane and the desperate.

The private notebook of a Roman emperor, writing to himself about duty, mortality, and how to stay decent while running an empire.

A respectable London doctor’s secret experiment splits him into two men — one civilised, one monstrous.

A forbidden play is said to drive its readers mad, in the story collection that inspired Lovecraft and, a century later, HBO’s True Detective.

A governess grows convinced her two young charges are being stalked by the ghosts of former servants — or is she the danger?

Two sisters, one ruled by passion and one by restraint, navigate love and heartbreak after their family’s sudden fall from fortune.

Douglass’s own account of his life in slavery and his escape to freedom, published to devastating effect in 1845 and still one of the most powerful documents of American history.

Augustine’s account of his own restless youth and dramatic conversion to Christianity, considered the first true autobiography in Western literature.