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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.
$8.00
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Maurice Leblanc's dazzling debut collection introducing Arsène Lupin, the charming master thief who robs the rich, outwits the police, and turns every crime into a performance.
$9.50
The Huguenots in France
Samuel Smiles’s The Huguenots in France explores persecution, exile, and endurance in French Protestant history.
$8.00
Jane Eyre
A governess with a fierce heart navigates love, loss, and the shadows of Thornfield Hall.
$5.00
Crime and Punishment
A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his crime consumes him.
$5.00
Peter Pan
A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.
$7.00
Moby-Dick
Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale becomes a swirling vortex of biblical allusions and salt-stained philosophy.
$5.00
From the editor
Staff picks.
Grimms' Fairy Tales
A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.
$8.50
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.
$7.00
The Odyssey
Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.
$5.00
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.
$5.00
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.
$5.00
Crime and Punishment
A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his crime consumes him.
$5.00
Moby-Dick
Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale becomes a swirling vortex of biblical allusions and salt-stained philosophy.
$5.00
Collection
Reading the canon.
Grimms' Fairy Tales
A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.
$8.50
Peter Pan
A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.
$7.00
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.
$7.00
The Odyssey
Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.
$5.00
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.
$5.00
Little Women
Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.
$5.00
Crime and Punishment
A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his crime consumes him.
$5.00
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From the journal
On rereading the shelf.
Why Victorian Novels Were Published in Parts—and How Serial Reading Shaped the Story
Discover how serial publication shaped Victorian novels, from cliffhangers and monthly numbers to Dickens, readers, illustration, and the rhythms of suspense.
The Serious Art of Nonsense: When Language Breaks Its Own Rules
From Edward Lear’s limericks to Lewis Carroll’s impossible words, literary nonsense turns broken logic into a precise and surprisingly durable art.
The Lives Written in the Margins: How Readers Have Always Talked Back to Books
From medieval glosses to pencilled arguments in paperbacks, marginalia reveals that reading has never been entirely silent or solitary.