She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me...\nIt is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice is the most beloved romance story of our time. The young and witty Elizabeth Bennet meets the haughty Mr. Darcy, and despite their initial distaste for each other, the pair soon discover there is more to each other than what meets the eye.\nHumorous, passionate, touching, and poignant, Pride and Prejudice has delighted fans and literary scholars alike for hundreds of years.

Pride and Prejudice

Literature & Fiction

Austen., Jane

Literary

SDE Classics

It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.Book #1 of 20 in the SDE Classics Science Fiction CollectionHumans vs. Martians. Conventional weapons vs. the dreaded Heat-Ray and poisonous black smoke. It's not the survival of one person at stake. It is the survival of all humanity.A classic unlike anything the world had yet to see, The War of the Worlds takes you into late 19th century England where a full-scale Martian invasion has begun.

The War of the Worlds

Wells., H.G

Classics

Moby-Dick

...for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.\nAn American masterpiece, Moby-Dick takes you on an epic voyage aboard the Pequod, where Captain Ahab’s obsession with the whale named "Moby Dick" drives the crew and his ship further and further into a spiral of madness.\nConsidered a classic today, Moby-Dick was not as appreciated during Melville’s lifetime, where it even went out of print for many decades. Not until Melville’s 100 year anniversary of his birth year did a revival into his work bring Moby-Dick back into the forefront of American Literature.

MELVILLE, HERMAN

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction...\nAll Aboard The Nautilus for a 19th century adventure under the sea. From the Antarctic to Atlantis, Captain Nemo takes you to the far reaches of the earth where you observe exotic marine wildlife, wrestle with giant squids, and discover centuries-old sunken ships. A journey of a lifetime awaits!\n20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is the standard of science fiction adventure that to this day is still acclaimed as a masterpiece.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Verne. Jules

Genre Fiction

“Some persons hold,” he pursued, still hesitating, “that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart.” The central focus surrounds the fictional Northern-English Mill-town named Coketown. Here, the owner of the local school, a Mr. Thomas Gradgrind, educates his students in taking part in pure facts and never anything abstract or imaginative. This school of thought, called Utilitarianism, raises many social questions and his children themselves see an impact from such hard line thinking. Dickens wanted to educate readers of his time on the appalling, and many times dehumanizing, working conditions of factories in industrial towns and to also satirize the prevailing thoughts of the day, including seeing life through pure statistics and with no emotion.

Hard Times

DICKENS., CHARLES

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert request an orphan child to be adopted into their family and to help at their farm named Green Gables, they had expected a young boy to be sent. Instead, a young red-haired girl named Anne shows up. Despite the unexpected arrival, the Cuthberts decide to keep the young girl, and Anne finds ways, in which only she could, to settle in at Green Gables.

Anne of Green Gables

Children's Books

Montgomery., L. M.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate. Lily Bart, a beautiful yet impoverished socialite in turn- of-the-century New York, is looking to get married. Despite creeping up on the age beyond the societal norms of marriage, she holds high standards for a husband because she herself grew up in elegance and luxury, two life qualities she believes she cannot live without. The House of Mirth presents a young protagonist who struggles between who she is and who society tells her to be. One of the first of its kind to depict the life of New York high society, The House of Mirth showcases the depravity that surrounds the worship of money and the seeking of a high reputation.

The House of Mirth

WHARTON,EDITH

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs. Newland Archer, a prominent lawyer and heir to an illustrious family in 1870s upper class New York City, is engaged to be married to a modest young woman named May Welland. An enigmatic cousin, Ellen Olenska, visits his family, and despite his commitment to May, Newland finds himself attracted more and more to the thirty year old Ellen, and the time spent with Ellen begins to erode his confidence with his marriage plans to May. With The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton draws upon her own experiences to create a moving story that challenged the standards as set by old New York high society in the mid and late 19th century. With The Age of Innocence’s publication, Edith Wharton won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921.

The Age of Innocence

Our impulses are too strong for our judgment sometimes. A young Tess was the daughter of uneducated peasants with the surname of Durbeyfield. Her father had convinced himself that he is of nobility and related to the nearby wealthy D’Urbervilles. Misfortune strikes Tess and out of desperation to help her family, she visits the Lady D’Urberville in hope that she may provide Tess with some assistance. En route to meeting her, she instead meets Lady D’Urverville’s son, Alec D’Urberville. Her romantic life takes on a tumultuous turn as Tess battles her affections for Alec and another man named Angel she had met at a local village dance.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

HARDY, THOMAS

At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. In northern France, a young medical professional named Charles Bovary marries, at the behest of his mother, an unpleasant yet wealthy widow. After visiting a rural patient, he meets an effervescent young lady named Emma. After Charles’s wife dies unexpectedly, he pursues and marries Emma, but soon Emma finds married life dull and uninteresting. The focal point of the story, the eponymous Emma Bovary discovers a love for scandalous behavior with the few mysterious men entering and exiting her life. Published in 1856 as a serial, Madame Bovary created instant controversy with the nature and descriptions of infidelity within the story.

Madame Bovary

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE

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