Classic Books to Read

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

Jane Austen • 1813

War and Peace With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman

Leo Tolstoy • 2014

1984

George Orwell • 2013

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1993

My Policeman

Bethan Roberts • 2012

The Great Gatsby The Original 1925 Edition

Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2021

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka • 2009

Anna Karenina

graf Leo Tolstoy • 1995