Short Classic Books
Classic books that fit into a few sittings: novellas, compact adventures, short memoirs, and slim masterpieces with no wasted pages. Click-to-explain keeps the older vocabulary from slowing you down, while character avatars and chapter music make even the briefest read feel complete.
114 books
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Short Science Fiction by Isaac Asimov
Short Fiction by Daphne du Maurier
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Othello by William Shakespeare
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
Beowulf by Anonymous
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Vampire by John William Polidori
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Antigone by Sophocles
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
North of Boston by Robert Frost
Ajax by Sophocles
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany
The Power of Darkness by Leo Tolstoy
The Gods of Pegāna by Lord Dunsany
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
New Hampshire by Robert Frost
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
Agamemnon by Aeschylus
R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
Tartuffe by Molière
Henry V by William Shakespeare
Philoctetes by Sophocles
Electra by Sophocles
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
The Trachiniae by Sophocles
Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare
Magnolia Leaves by Mary Weston Fordham
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan
The Eumenides by Aeschylus
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
The Conscious Lovers by Richard Steele
Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth
Unto This Last by John Ruskin
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare
The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
The Georgics by Virgil
Pericles by William Shakespeare
Edward III by William Shakespeare
The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
Henry VI, Part II by William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Exiles by James Joyce
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
The Eclogues by Virgil
The Man of Destiny by George Bernard Shaw
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare
The Mule-Bone by Langston Hughes
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley
Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare
Short Plays by J. M. Synge
King John by William Shakespeare
The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge
Fanny’s First Play by George Bernard Shaw
Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Poetry by Taras Shevchenko
Henry VI, Part I by William Shakespeare
The Luzumiyat by Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri
Candida by George Bernard Shaw
The Unicorn from the Stars by Lady Gregory
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
The Well of the Saints by J. M. Synge
Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson
The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford
Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor
Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur W. Pinero
The Vortex by Noël Coward
