Classics

When a single betrayal throws one household into chaos, Tolstoy opens a vast, glittering world where love collides with duty, desire with propriety, and private choices ripple outward—testing marriages, friendships, faith, and the very meaning of a good life.

In the fevered heat of St. Petersburg, a broke former student tests the boundaries of conscience and daring, only to discover that the most relentless pursuit is not by police—but by the mind and soul that cannot escape itself.

In a handsome merchant house in Lübeck, laughter, etiquette, and prosperity mask subtle fractures—until ambition, pride, and time itself begin to erode the Buddenbrooks’ fortunes, binding each generation to choices that quietly hasten a family’s fall.

In a future where babies are engineered on assembly lines and happiness is enforced by conditioning and pleasure, one man’s unease cracks the glossy surface—exposing what a society gains, and loses, when comfort replaces conscience, art, and freedom.

From a bishop’s startling act of mercy to the long shadow it casts across lives marked by poverty, love, law, and revolution, Hugo’s epic asks what it means to be just—and whether compassion can outlast cruelty.

Sweeping from glittering Petersburg salons to the thunder of Napoleon’s battlefields, Tolstoy follows a web of families whose loves, ambitions, and doubts are tested as history tightens around them—and asks what truly moves a human life.

In fog-choked London, a single, interminable lawsuit—Jarndyce and Jarndyce—spreads its shadow through parlours and slums alike, entangling lovers, orphans, aristocrats, and outcasts in a mystery where law becomes fate and compassion is the rarest justice.

Step past Frankenstein into Mary Shelley’s darker afterthoughts, where a youthful man drinks half an alchemist’s elixir and must endure the slow, bewildering cruelty of unending years, love’s corrosion, and the terrible loneliness of outliving everyone.

When a new bishop and his formidable wife descend on sleepy Barchester, old alliances shatter and new ambitions flare—until courtship, conscience, and ecclesiastical politics collide in a richly comic struggle for power, principle, and the soul of a cathedral town.

On a bitter London Christmas Eve, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the ghost of his dead partner—and forced into a night of visions that will measure the true cost of a life lived without compassion or joy.

When eccentric, overeducated, and spectacularly unhireable Ignatius J. Reilly collides with the streets of 1960s New Orleans, his crusade against modern “degeneracy” sparks a chain of disasters—hilarious, bitter, and strangely tender—that keep widening far beyond his control.

In the Republic of Gilead, where women’s bodies are conscripted for the state and even language is policed, Offred remembers what was stolen—and risks everything to hold onto desire, memory, and the dangerous possibility of choice.

Amid the gathering storm of the French Revolution, a cryptic message—“Recalled to life”—draws a London banker into a web of buried secrets, divided loyalties, and sacrifices so profound they remake what love, justice, and redemption can mean.