Classics
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The House of Mirth
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Lily Bart, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, wants a higher standing in society. She believes she can attain this dream by marrying a rich man. Unfortunately, her true love, Lawrence… Read More →
The House of the Seven Gables
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Old Hepzibah Pyncheon lives in her family's decaying mansion, a reportedly cursed house built about 200 years earlier. The Pyncheon family no longer has the riches it once did, and Hepzibah… Read More →
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of Notre Dame, faces insults and ridicule for his disturbing appearance. His adoptive father, Archdeacon Claude Frollo, is obsessed with the beautiful… Read More →
The Iliad
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The tenth and final year of the Trojan War comes to its climactic end in this infamous Greek epic. With the mighty Achilles brooding on the sidelines of the battle, the Greek army faces… Read More →
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's Read More →
The Invisible Man
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
A strange and reclusive scientist takes a room at a village inn. Griffin keeps his face wrapped in bandages and exhibits peculiar behaviors, such as turning his room into a laboratory,… Read More →
The Island of Doctor Moreau
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
When Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a mysterious island in the South Pacific, he meets the infamous Dr. Moreau, a physiologist who was forced to leave England because of his repulsive… Read More →
The Jungle
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Jurgis and his family move to Chicago from Lithuania to find a better life. But what they find instead are abysmal working conditions, corrupt legal systems, and chronic poverty. The family… Read More →
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
In the midst of the French and Indian War, young Alice and Cora Munro set out to visit their father, a colonel in the British army. It's a dangerous journey through the western New York… Read More →
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Legend has it that the town of Sleepy Hollow is haunted by the ghost of the terrifying Headless Horseman. Ichabod Crane, the town's superstitious new school teacher, is about to find out if… Read More →
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The only survivor of a shipwreck during a slaving expedition, plantation-owner Robinson Crusoe is forced to fight for survival on a deserted Caribbean island. At first he curses his fate, but Read More →
The Life of King Henry V
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
In the wake of his father's death, Prince Henry has ascended to the throne as King Henry V. The rebels have finally been overthrown and the civil war has ended. Henry continues to distance… Read More →
The Lost World
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The eccentric Professor Challenger leads a scientific expedition deep into the Brazilian rain forest, joined by newspaper reporter Edward Malone, biologist Professor Summerlee, and adventurer Read More →
The Man in the Iron Mask
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The courageous musketeers—Athos, D'Artagnan, Aramis, and Porthos—return to sword fighting in the final installment of the D'Artagnan Romances. When Aramis visits the Bastille, an infamous… Read More →
The Merchant of Venice
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
In order to win the wealthy Portia's hand in marriage, Bassanio thinks he needs money to impress her. He goes to his friend Antonio for help, but Antonio's money is tied up in ships. Antonio… Read More →
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Ballads, legends, and poems about the legendary Robin Hood have been around since the middle ages. In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, the bandit and his merry men ramble through the… Read More →
The Odyssey
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Odysseus, the hero of the Trojan War, longs to return home to his kingdom in Ithaca, where a horde of suitors (who believe the long-absent Odysseus to be dead) are courting his beloved wife.… Read More →
The Oedipus Trilogy — Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Disregard for messages from the oracles and gods doesn't turn out well for characters in Greek stories, and Oedipus is no exception. Encompassing murder and betrayal, incest and patricide,… Read More →
The Phantom of the Opera
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Amidst rumors that the Paris opera house is haunted, Christine Daaé, a young Swedish girl, performs at a gala and attracts attention from both her childhood sweetheart, Raoul, and the… Read More →
The Picture of Dorian Gray
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Is the price of eternal youth worth a man's soul? The exceptionally handsome Dorian Gray is a model—and the muse—for a young artist, Basil Hallward. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry… Read More →
The Raven
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
During a dark night in December, a man sits in his room sadly thinking about his lost love, Lenore. Suddenly, he hears a tapping on the door, but no one is there. The noise moves to the… Read More →
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Drawn by visions of glory on the battlefield, Henry Fleming joins the Union Army to fight the Confederates. But his dreams of valor are outweighed by his fear, and after one battle, Harry… Read More →
The Return of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Thirteen Holmes Adventures
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
After surviving a nearly fatal encounter with his nemesis Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes returns to 221B Baker Street. Spanning thirteen thrilling adventures, Sherlock Holmes and his friend John… Read More →
The Scarlet Letter
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Hester Prynne has committed one of the worst crimes in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston: adultery. To make matter worse, she is pregnant. As punishment, she is shamed and forced to wear a… Read More →