The Essential Sherlock Holmes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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