In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the baffling courtship of a snobbish gentleman and the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
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- A totalitarian regime has ordered all books to be destroyed, but one of the book burners suddenly realizes their merit, in a chilling near-future world.
- After a lonely childhood, young orphan Jane Eyre takes a post as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the enigmatic Mr. Rochester and uncovers a ghastly secret.
- When an immigrant girl from Bohemia and a ten-year-old orphan boy meet in a late nineteenth century Nebraska farm town, the lessons and friendship they share will affect their entire lives.
- The adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through Spain and become subject to the noble knight-errant's fanciful imagination.
- Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Edmond Dantes escapes many years later, and finds a treasure which he uses to exact his revenge on the three men responsible for his incarceration.
- Pip, a young orphan, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman.
- An African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
- Retells the tragic times of the beautiful and rebellious Caddy Compson through the eyes of her three troubled brothers and the family’s Black servant Dilsey.
- Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
- Marooned on a desert island, a group of schoolboys attempt to forge their own society. In the absence of adult supervision or rules they soon revert to cruelty and violence, their actions serving as a dark parable of human nature.
- Hester Prynne is ostracized from her seventeenth-century Puritan community for refusing to name the father of her child.
- Depicts the struggles of a United States airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase.
- Formerly imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean struggles to build a new life, but the relentless police Inspector Javert is determined to put him back in jail, forcing Jean to go into hiding.
- When independent Janie Crawford returns home, her small African-American community is abuzz with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man.
- A seemingly ordinary man wakes up one morning to discover that he has been transformed into a gigantic insect and must deal with his new physical form as well as the rejection of his family.
- McMurphy, a criminal who feigns insanity, is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.
- An explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
- The classical novel of court life in tenth and eleventh-century Japan centers on the life and loves of a nobleman known as the shining Genji, and those of Kaoru, the grandson of Genji's best friend.
- Written in 1948 as a chilling prophecy about the future, the author portrays a vision of life when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
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