Classic Literature

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Dover Reader

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2016

Excellent anthology contains novellas Notes from the Underground, The Double, and Poor Folk; short stories include "Another Man's Wife" and "White Nights"; plus an excerpt from Crime and Punishment.…

H. G. Wells The Dover Reader

by H. G. Wells

2016

Features The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Invisible Man, as well as five famous short stories, including "The Stolen Bacillus," the first work dealing with bio-terrorism.…

James Joyce The Dover Reader

by James Joyce

2016

Primer of influential and innovative works features A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in its entirety, excerpts from Ulysses, the short story collection Dubliners, the play Exiles, and Chamber Music, an early book of poems.…

Herman Melville The Dover Reader

by Herman Melville

2016

Despite the early success of his tales of adventure in the South Seas, Herman Melville (1819–1891) suffered a reversal of fortunes with the 1851 publication of Moby-Dick. The great epic, now recognized as a masterpiece, was scorned by an un…

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Demian

by Hermann Hesse

2000

A friend's mother, war, and newly discovered self-respect draw a young man toward his psychological awakening.…

G. K. Chesterton The Dover Reader

by G.K. Chesterton

2014

Contents include unabridged texts of The Man Who Was Thursday and The Club of Queer Trades; the classic study of Christian morality, Orthodoxy; a selection of Father Brown stories; and several essays.…

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Five Great Comedies

by William Shakespeare

2013

This inexpensive Dover edition brings together five of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, from the magic and mischief of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the rollicking farce of The Merry Wives of Windsor.…

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Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

by L Frank Baum

2021

This is the fourth book in The Oz Series by L. Frank Baum. On her way back from Australia, Dorothy visits her cousin, Zeb, in California. They are soon swallowed up by an earthquake, along with Zeb's horse Jim and Dorothy's cat Eure…

The Picture of Dorian Gray Illustrated (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Oscar Wilde

2021

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly f…

The Battle of Life

by Charles Dickens

2021

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man and the Ghost's …

The Canterville Ghost Annotated

by Oscar Wilde

2021

"The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts 23 February and 2 March 1887.The story is about an American family who move to a castle haunted by …

Four Great Tragedies

by William Shakespeare

2005

Collects four of Shakspeare's tragedies, including Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.…