Modern Classics

Beloved works our editors recommend for a first read or a return visit.

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Middlemarch

George Eliot · 1871

Accessible · 589 pp.

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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 1811

Moderate · 365 pp.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde · 1895

Challenging · 457 pp.

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Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Moderate · 463 pp.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy · 1905

Challenging · 593 pp.

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Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1864

Accessible · 514 pp.

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Villette

Charlotte Brontë · 1853

Challenging · 372 pp.

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The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 1881

Challenging · 440 pp.

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Demian

Hermann Hesse · 1919

Moderate · 516 pp.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

Challenging · 596 pp.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1890

Moderate · 338 pp.

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War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Challenging · 488 pp.