Modern Classics

Enduring fiction that still speaks in the present tense.

Modern Classics3.8

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley · 1818

Accessible · 499 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James · 1881

Moderate · 342 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka · 1915

Accessible · 533 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse · 1927

Challenging · 347 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut · 1963

Accessible · 321 pp.

Modern Classics4.0

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy · 1877

Challenging · 605 pp.

Modern Classics4.2

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 1868

Moderate · 460 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy · 1869

Accessible · 324 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1890

Accessible · 446 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville · 1851

Moderate · 622 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White · 1952

Accessible · 385 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1847

Challenging · 466 pp.

Modern Classics4.0

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866

Challenging · 466 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850

Accessible · 409 pp.

Modern Classics3.8

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl · 1964

Accessible · 419 pp.

Modern Classics4.1

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1847

Accessible · 407 pp.

Modern Classics3.9

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967

Moderate · 399 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton · 1920

Challenging · 536 pp.

Modern Classics4.0

The Plague

Albert Camus · 1947

Challenging · 447 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas · 1844

Challenging · 564 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · 1813

Accessible · 423 pp.

Modern Classics4.3

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 1850

Challenging · 377 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 1853

Challenging · 595 pp.

Modern Classics3.6

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

Moderate · 474 pp.

Modern Classics3.7

Catch-22

Joseph Heller · 1961

Challenging · 483 pp.

Modern Classics3.5

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo · 1862

Accessible · 441 pp.