Long Classics

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Raskolnikov commits murder and faces Porfiry in this psychological thriller. Summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: The Joad family's journey from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl. Pulitzer winner - summary and where to buy.

Dante's Divine Comedy: Journey through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso with Virgil and Beatrice. Medieval epic poem - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre: Jane and Mr. Rochester at Thornfield Hall. Gothic romance and female independence - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Joseph Heller's Catch-22: Yossarian fights absurd military bureaucracy in WWII. The novel that defined paradoxical logic - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Homer's Iliad tells of Achilles' wrath during the Trojan War. The foundational epic of Western literature - summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Dickens's Great Expectations: orphan Pip's rise from the marshes to London high society. A timeless novel of ambition, class, and moral growth.

Stendhal's The Red and the Black: Julien Sorel's ruthless ascent through Restoration France. The pioneering psychological novel of ambition and desire.

Dickens's David Copperfield: from orphan's hardship to literary triumph. The autobiographical masterpiece Dickens called his 'favourite child.'

Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind: Scarlett O'Hara's fierce survival through the Civil War. The sweeping epic of love, war, and the Old South.

Sterne's Tristram Shandy: the wildly digressive novel that broke every rule of storytelling. The 18th-century masterpiece that invented postmodernism.

Dostoevsky's The Idiot: Prince Myshkin's radical goodness collides with a corrupt St. Petersburg society. A tragic study of innocence destroyed.

Lowry's Under the Volcano: the British Consul drinks himself to death on Mexico's Day of the Dead. A hallucinatory modernist masterpiece.

Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: Anna Wulf splits her life across four notebooks. A landmark feminist novel of fragmentation, freedom, and creative crisis.

Rushdie's Midnight's Children: Saleem Sinai's life mirrors India's turbulent birth as a nation. Magical realism at its most inventive.

Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo: Edmond Dantès escapes prison and exacts magnificent revenge. The greatest adventure novel ever written.

Günter Grass's The Tin Drum: Oskar Matzerath's wild, grotesque chronicle of Germany's darkest century. Summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities: a brilliant drifter navigates Vienna on the eve of collapse. A monumental novel of ideas and identity.

Dostoevsky's Demons: nihilist revolutionaries tear a Russian town apart in this prophetic novel of ideology, terror, and moral collapse.

Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago: love and poetry against the storm of the Russian Revolution. Summary, analysis, and where to buy.

Thackeray's Vanity Fair: Becky Sharp's ruthless climb through Regency England. A satirical masterpiece of ambition, class, and human folly.

Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers: d'Artagnan and his companions in a whirlwind of swordplay and intrigue. The ultimate adventure novel.