Modern Literary Classics

Enduring fiction that still feels immediate and alive.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1884

Accessible · 511 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.2

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Moderate · 622 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.8

Billy Budd

Herman Melville · 1924

Accessible · 484 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 1853

Accessible · 574 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.3

Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Challenging · 393 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl · 1964

Accessible · 354 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.1

Demian

Hermann Hesse · 1919

Accessible · 502 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.1

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

Accessible · 425 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.6

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Moderate · 398 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.2

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Moderate · 597 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.2

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952

Moderate · 566 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Accessible · 444 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.9

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Moderate · 675 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.1

Matilda

Roald Dahl · 1988

Accessible · 598 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.9

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871

Moderate · 353 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.0

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Challenging · 328 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.0

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864

Challenging · 571 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.8

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck · 1937

Accessible · 628 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

Persuasion

Jane Austen · 1817

Accessible · 662 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.3

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Challenging · 590 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.1

Silas Marner

George Eliot · 1861

Accessible · 317 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.7

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse · 1927

Challenging · 307 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.3

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

Challenging · 440 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.7

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X · 1965

Challenging · 304 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.6

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

Moderate · 464 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.2

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

Moderate · 643 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.2

The Fall

Albert Camus · 1956

Moderate · 344 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.7

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton · 1905

Challenging · 660 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 1895

Accessible · 351 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

Accessible · 653 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.1

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

Accessible · 463 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton · 1967

Accessible · 432 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.8

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1890

Accessible · 560 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.6

The Plague

Albert Camus · 1947

Moderate · 539 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.2

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

Moderate · 353 pp.

Modern Literary Classics3.5

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy · 1905

Accessible · 619 pp.

Modern Literary Classics4.0

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Challenging · 450 pp.