Dive into three captivating novels from a pioneer in the genre of science fiction: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War in the Air.

Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children’s novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. 

Jane Austen’s third published novel was Mansfield Park. The story follows the young, poor protagonist Fanny Price who at age ten is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle Bertram at their grand estate of Mansfield Park. Growing up in their family circle, Fanny navigates love, loneliness and rivalry.

Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workhouse is lonely and sad. Oliver becomes an apprentice for an undertaker but runs away after he gets into a fight with another apprentice.

A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Mr. Jarvis Lorry, an official of Tellson’s Bank in London who accompanies Lucie Manette to Paris. He has information that her father, Dr. Alexandre Manette, who had disappeared eighteen years ago, is alive. He had been wrongfully imprisoned in the Bastille and left there to die. 

This book has matching lined journal (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that portrays a totalitarian society where personal freedom is non-existent.

Alec Stoke-d’Urberville rapes Tess. She returns home, where she gives birth to a child who soon dies. Tess becomes a milkmaid at the Talbothays Dairy, where she falls in love with Angel Clare, a young intellectual she met years before.