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The Picture of Dorian Gray The Original 1890 Edition
Oscar Wilde • 1890
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray<br/><br/>The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 gothic and philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde's knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.<br/><br/>Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.<br/><br/>Wilde revised and expanded the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) for publication as a novel; the book edition (1891) featured an aphoristic preface — an apologia about the art of the novel and the reader. The content, style and presentation of the preface made it famous in its own literary right, as social and cultural criticism. In April 1891, the editorial house Ward, Lock and Company published the revised version of The Picture of Dorian Gray.<br/><br/>A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
Red Rising (The Red Rising Series)
Pierce Brown • 2014
Dubliners James Joyce
James Joyce • 2016
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger • 2001
A novel by J.D. Salinger, it explores the themes of alienation and innocence through the eyes of its teenage protagonist, Holden Caulfield.
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo • 2013
An epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, it tells the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his struggles for redemption in 19th-century France.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee • 2002
A classic of modern American literature, it explores racial injustice and loss of innocence in the American South.
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 2004
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy • 2014
A monumental work of Russian literature, it chronicles the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society.
Moby Dick: Herman Melville's Original Adventure Classic
Herman Melville • 2024
An epic tale of obsession and revenge, following Captain Ahab's relentless pursuit of the white whale.
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes • 2009
Considered one of the foundational works of modern Western literature, it tells the adventures of a nobleman who reads too many chivalric romances.
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway • 2024
The Hunger Games Four Book Collection
Suzanne Collins • 2020
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games, Book One)
Suzanne Collins • 2009
Lord of the Flies
William Golding • 2003
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare • 2011
The Lord Of The Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien • 2012
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 2010
Middlemarch
George Eliot • 2003
The Iliad
Homer • 2017
The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Fitzgerald • 2022
ULYSSES
James Joyce • 2022
Paradise Lost
John Milton • 2003
Dracula
Bram Stoker • 2017
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 1994
Othello
William Shakespeare • 1993
King Lear
William Shakespeare • 2003
Macbeth
William Shakespeare • 2003
Hamlet
William Shakespeare • 2003
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas • 2009
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley • 2006
The Handmaid's Tale A Novel
Margaret Atwood • 1998
Fahrenheit 451 A Novel
Ray Bradbury • 2012
The Pearl
John Steinbeck • 1993
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck • 1993
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1994
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas • 2003
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath • 2005
Cat's Cradle A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut • 1998
Animal Farm
George Orwell • 2023
Catch-22
Joseph Heller • 2010
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Albert Camus • 2023
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott • 2014
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell • 1961
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2024
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2020
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 2014
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2002
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck • 2006
East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
John Steinbeck • 1952
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Classics)
Anne Bronte • 1996
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte • 2002
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut • 1991
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen • 2003
Mother Night A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut • 1999
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë • 2003
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen • 1813
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli • 2021
