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The Essential Sherlock Holmes

The Essential Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Twelve cases. Twenty years. One detective. The stories that made Holmes immortal — from "A Scandal in Bohemia" to the Reichenbach Falls — arranged in publication order with a new introduction.

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The Short Masterpieces of Herman Melville

The Short Masterpieces of Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Everyone knows Moby-Dick. Almost no one knows his short fiction is stranger and more unsettling. Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and three magazine grenades.

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Sleepy Hollow & Other American Legends

Sleepy Hollow & Other American Legends

Washington Irving

The essential Halloween read. Five of Irving's greatest tales — the Headless Horseman, Rip Van Winkle, and the original American deal with the devil — in one beautiful edition.

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The Call of the Wild & Other Tales of the North

The Call of the Wild & Other Tales of the North

Jack London

Nobody has ever written cold better. The complete novel plus six Northland masterpieces, including "To Build a Fire" in its definitive 1908 form. Read it somewhere warm.

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Mark Twain's Funniest

Mark Twain's Funniest

Mark Twain

The funniest American who ever lived, at full stretch. Eleven stories and sketches — the Jumping Frog, Hadleyburg, "Cannibalism in the Cars" — plus Twain's own theory of comedy.

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Candide & Other Philosophical Tales

Candide & Other Philosophical Tales

Voltaire

The funniest and most furious book of the Enlightenment, paired with Zadig in the 1749 first English translation and Micromegas — science fiction a century before the genre had a name.

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Dubliners

Dubliners

James Joyce

All fifteen stories in Joyce's order, from "The Sisters" through "The Dead" — the complete 1914 text with his punctuation intact, typeset for long reading sessions.

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Why these editions?

Anyone can download the complete works of a dead author for free. That's not what this is. Each collection is curated — a deliberate selection, arranged with care, opened by a new editorial introduction, set in clean typography that respects long reading sessions, and delivered as a Kindle-ready EPUB. The curation is the product.

Every text is verified public domain in the United States, sourced from early editions. Pay what you want; the suggested price is $12.