Russell's ebook Library
1984
George Orwell
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people’s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life.Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something th...
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
As legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listen...
Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë
In Agnes Grey Anne Bronte drew on her own experiences as a governess, trying to cope with unmanageable children with little respect from her employer. It combines a wonderful study of Victorian responses to children with a story of romantic love.
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
George Orwell
"Animal Farm" is the most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories.Its account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said ...
Anthem
Ayn Rand
In Anthem, Rand examines a frightening future in which individuals have no name, no independence, and no values.Equality 7-2521 lives in the dark ages of the future where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, and all tr...
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world - and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his ha...
The Atrocity Exhibition
J. G. Ballard
The irrational, all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de force.The central character’s dreams are haunted by images of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he trav...
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Often considered Charles Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House blends together several literary genres — detective fiction, romance, melodrama, and satire — to create an unforgettable portrait of the decay and corruption at the heart of English law and ...
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is one of this century's greatest works of American literature. First published m 1961, Joseph Heller's profound and compelling novel has appeared on nearly every list of must read fiction. It is a classic in every sense of the word.Catch-22...
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
The quintessential novel from England's most beloved novelist, David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful author.
The Early Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
This collection of Ayn Rand's early fiction - including her short story 'The Night King' - ranges from beginner's exercises to excerpts from early versions of 'We the Living and The Fountainhead'.Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, thes...
Emma
Jane Austen
Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, exquisite, and thoroughly self-deluded young woman who has "lived in the world with very little to distress or vex her."Jane Austen exercises her taste for cutting social observation and her talent for investing seemingly...
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand's story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls.First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism and presents an exalted view of man'...
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a "study in human weakness and the slow human surrender," may be called Charles Dickens's finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career.In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict sp...
Hard Times
Charles Dickens and Frederick Busch and Jane Smiley
Reason, Facts, and statistics...Dickens’ scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled ...
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region.Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psych...
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
The Inferno remains literature's most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simple — and now legendary — tercet:Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest d...
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Immediately recognized as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is an extraordinary coming-of-age story featuring one of the most independent and strong-willed female protagonists in all of literature.Poor an...
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
Wildly popular, prolific and prophetic, Jules Verne leads his legions of delighted readers on journeys beneath the sea and beyond the stars. Here, the grandfather of modern science fiction takes us to the Earth's core.The quest begins when irascible ...
Lady Susan
Jane Austen
This early epistolary novel depicts an unscrupulous coquette, toying with the affections of several men.
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
During the fierce French and Indian wars, an adroit scout named Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook weave through the spectacular and dangerous wilderness of upstate New York, fighting to save the beautiful Munro sisters from the Huron renegade Ma...
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg...
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
From its sharply satiric opening sentence, Mansfield Park dealas with money and marriage, and how strongly they affect each other. Shy, fragile Fanny Price is the consummate "poor relation." Sent to live with her wealthy uncle Thomas, she clashes wit...
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's ...
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