Books published by publisher Athenaeum Classics

Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s thrilling adventure story is one of the most widely read romantic novels of all time. In it the dashing young hero, Edmond Dantès, is betrayed by his enemies and thrown into a secret dungeon in the Chateau d’If — doomed to spend his life in a dank prison cell. The story of his long, intolerable years in captivity, his miraculous escape, and his carefully wrought revenge creates a dramatic tale of mystery and intrigue and paints a vision of France — a dazzling, dueling, exuberant France — that has become immortal.

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. The prophet, Almustafa, has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years and is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition.

Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs.Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father. After Mr Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine’s brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.A fiend of a book — an incredible monster... The action is laid in hell, — only it seems places and people have English names there. —Dante Gabriel RossettiA monument of the most striking genius that nineteenth-century womanhood has given us. —Clement ShorterThe greatest work of fiction by any man or woman Europe has produced to date. —Anthony LudoviciThere is no “I” in ‘Wuthering Heights’. There are no governesses. There are no employers. There is love, but it is not the love of men and women. Emily was inspired by some more general conception. The impulse which urged her to create was not her own suffering or her own injuries. She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book. —Virginia Woolf

This ebook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie:The Mysterious Affair at StylesThe Secret AdversaryThe Murder on the LinksThe Jewel Robbery at the Grand MetropolitanThe Disappearance of Mr. DavenheimThe Adventure of the “Western Star”The Tragedy at Marsdon ManorThe Million Dollar Bond RobberyThe Adventure of the Cheap FlatThe Mystery of the Hunter’s LodgeThe Kidnapped Prime MinisterThe Adventure of the Egyptian TombThe Adventure of the Italian NoblemanThe Case of the Missing WillThe Chocolate BoxThe Veiled LadyThe Lost MineThe Affair at the Victory BallThe Adventure of the Clapham CookThe Cornish MysteryThe Adventure of Johnnie WaverlyThe Double ClueThe King of ClubsThe Lemesurier InheritanceThe Plymouth ExpressThe Submarine PlansThe Market Basing MysteryThe Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Here you will find the following works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names:Austen, Jane: “Northanger Abbey”Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars”Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”Blackwood, Algernon: “The Listener”Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows”Brontë, Charlotte: “Jane Eyre”Brontë, Charlotte: “Villette”Brontë, Emily: “Wuthering Heights”Chambers, Robert W.: “The Repairer of Reputations”Collins, Wilkie: “The Woman in White”Crawford, F. Marion: “The Upper Berth”De La Mare, Walter: “Out of the Deep”De La Mare, Walter: “Seaton’s Aunt”Dickens, Charles: “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”Doyle, Arthur Conan: “The Hound of the Baskervilles”Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins: “The Shadows on the Wall”Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: “The Yellow Wallpaper”Gogol, Nikolai: “The Viy”Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The Ambitious Guest”Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “The House of the Seven Gables”Hodgson, William Hope: “The Voice in the Night”Hodgson, William Hope: “The Whistling Room”Hugo, Victor: “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”Jacobs, W. W.: “The Monkey’s Paw”James, Henry: “The Real Thing”James, Henry: “The Turn of the Screw”James, M. R.: “The Ash-Tree”James, M. R.: “Casting the Runes”Kafka, Franz: “In the Penal Colony”Kipling, Rudyard: “The Mark of the Beast”Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: “Green Tea”Le Fanu, J. Sheridan: “Schalken the Painter”Lee, Vernon: “Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady”Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Call of Cthulhu”Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Dreams in the Witch House”Lovecraft, H. P.: “The Dunwich Horror”Machen, Arthur: “The Great God Pan”Oliphant, Margaret: “The Open Door”Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Black Cat”Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Cask of Amontillado”Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Fall of the House of Usher”Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Masque of the Red Death”Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Tell-Tale Heart”Radcliffe, Ann: “The Mysteries of Udolpho”Shelley, Mary: “Frankenstein”Stevenson, Robert Louis: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”Stoker, Bram: “Dracula”Stoker, Bram: “The Jewel of Seven Stars”Wilde, Oscar: “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. From "The Frog King" to "The Golden Key," wondrous worlds unfold—heroes and heroines are rewarded, weaker animals triumph over the strong, and simple bumpkins prove themselves not so simple after all.