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A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
(Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1960)Technically, the greatest of Defoe's works
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brenda Wineapple
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Oct. 2, 1999)Hawthorne's monumental novel of sexual mores in Puritan New England retraces the classic triangle between a young woman, her aging husband, and her cowardly cleric lover. Reissue.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain, Edmund Reiss
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, April 1, 1963)A stoical New Englander is transported to sixth-century Camelot
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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Catherine Hutter, Hermann J. Weigand
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1962)This classic selection of writings by Goethe reflects the author's philosophy of love and death. @SourKraut Met a new girl today! Need to avoid being trapped in the friend zone this time. She is engaged to some dweeb named Albert. What kind of a name is Al? Truly, I am so sad. I am overcome with despair. I feel nothing but sorrow. Have I noted how upset I am? I am very upset. #pain #angst #suffering #sexdep From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories
Oscar Wilde, Gary Schmidgall
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, June 1, 1995)The classic of gothic horror is accompanied by three short stories--""Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,"" ""The Happy Prince,"" and ""The Birthday of the Infanta""--and a new introduction by Gary Schmidgall, author of The Stranger Wilde.
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The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allan Poe, Jay Parini
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Nov. 1, 1996)A unique, inexpensive paperback edition devoted exclusively to the author's haunting poetry contains a new introduction by a literary scholar and the complete verse of the ever-popular storyteller. Original.
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The American
Henry James, Leon Edel
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, Aug. 1, 1965)This novel is at once an incisive social comedy and a melodrama, a realistic novel of manners as well as a symbolic exploration of the cultural and moral conflict between the old and new worlds.
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo, Walter J. Cobb
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, April 1, 2001)In the famed novel set against the backdrop of medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed. Reissue.
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Billy Budd and Other Tales
Herman Melville, Joyce Carol Oates
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, July 1, 1998)A collection of short stories features the author's posthumously published novella, Billy Budd, which traces the violent rivalry between a young sailor and a demonic superior, and a new introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. Reprint.
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen, Joanne Greenberg
Mass Market Paperback (Signet Classics, June 1, 2004)This Illustrated collection, beautifully translated by Pat Shaw Iversen, includes forty-seven of Hans Christian Andersen's immortal tales.
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Paperback (Signet Classics, )None
