Modern Classics

Enduring novels that still feel immediate on the page.

Modern Classics3.5

Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871

Accessible · 589 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 1811

Moderate · 365 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 1895

Challenging · 457 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Moderate · 463 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy · 1905

Challenging · 593 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864

Accessible · 514 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

Villette

Charlotte Brontë · 1853

Challenging · 372 pp.

Modern Classics4.0

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 1881

Challenging · 440 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Demian

Hermann Hesse · 1919

Moderate · 516 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

Challenging · 596 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1890

Moderate · 338 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Challenging · 488 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Billy Budd

Herman Melville · 1924

Moderate · 518 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Moderate · 626 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Moderate · 449 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Matilda

Roald Dahl · 1988

Accessible · 632 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

Accessible · 358 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

Moderate · 360 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

Challenging · 332 pp.

Modern Classics4.0

Silas Marner

George Eliot · 1861

Challenging · 612 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Moderate · 585 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

Moderate · 461 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain · 1884

Challenging · 618 pp.

Modern Classics4.0

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Challenging · 369 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952

Moderate · 597 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 1850

Challenging · 485 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes · 1605

Accessible · 435 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton · 1967

Challenging · 510 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings

Edgar Allan Poe · 1843

Moderate · 629 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

The Fall

Albert Camus · 1956

Challenging · 544 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X · 1965

Accessible · 468 pp.

Modern Classics4.0

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy · 1886

Challenging · 319 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Accessible · 475 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883

Accessible · 644 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck · 1937

Accessible · 459 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Challenging · 374 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl · 1964

Moderate · 457 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

The Plague

Albert Camus · 1947

Moderate · 424 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse · 1927

Challenging · 663 pp.