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Literary fiction and prose portraits chosen for voice, argument, and lasting curiosity.

Literary Fiction

Silas Marner

George Eliot

4.31861

Literary Fiction

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4.11880

Literary Fiction

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Leo Tolstoy

3.51886

Literary Fiction

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

4.31877

Literary Fiction

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

4.11920

Literary Fiction

The Awakening

Kate Chopin

4.21899

Founding texts readers still search for — always legal, always readable on Usaile.

Founding Texts

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

3.91876

Founding Texts

A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift

4.01729

Founding Texts

The Million Pound Bank Note

Mark Twain

4.31893

Founding Texts

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

4.31894

Founding Texts

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

4.21871

Founding Texts

Middlemarch

George Eliot

4.11871

Mystery and pursuit fiction with clean chapter reading and independent editorial notes.

Parlor Intrigue

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.01902

Parlor Intrigue

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.01890

Parlor Intrigue

The Mysterious Card

Unknown

3.51896

Parlor Intrigue

The Man Who Was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton

4.11908

Parlor Intrigue

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

4.11841

Gothic Mood

The Phantom Rickshaw

Rudyard Kipling

3.91888

Science fiction and imagined worlds — framed for discovery, not archive dumps.

Speculative Salon

The Machine Stops

E. M. Forster

4.31909

Speculative Salon

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

3.91898

Imagined Worlds

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

4.01911

Speculative Salon

Flatland

Edwin A. Abbott

4.01884

Speculative Salon

From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne

3.61865

Speculative Salon

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.11912