Outstanding Works of Literature
Cathedral Classics hosts an array of classic literature, from erudite ancient tomes to avant-garde, twentieth-century masterpieces, all of which deserve a place in your home. All the world’s great novelists are here, Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, Arthur Machen and Henry James, brushing shoulders with such disparate luminaries as Sun Tzu, Marcus Aurelius, Kipling, Friedrich Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and Omar Khayam. Whatever your interest - biography, history, science fiction, cultural comment, poetry - you will find something to excite, and perhaps surprise, in our list below.
Cathedral Classics titles list
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: with 88 original illustrations | Mark Twain | Details... |
A Discourse on Inequality Paperback | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Details… |
A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | Details… |
A Modern Utopia | H. G. Wells | Details… |
A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man | James Joyce | Details... |
A Room of One's Own (not for sale in the U.S.A.) | Virginia Woolf | Details… |
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy | Laurence Sterne | Details… |
A Shepherd's Life: impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs | William Henry Hudson | Details... |
A Short History of England | G.K. Chesterton | Details... |
A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle | Details... |
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | Details... |
Anarchy | Errico Malatesta | Details... |
Anarchism and Other Essays | Emma Goldman | Details... |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | Details... |
An Account of the Mining District of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale, with additional drawings and photographs | Thomas Sopwith | Details... |
Anna of the Five Towns | Arnold Bennett | Details... |
Bankers and Other Rogues: A Brief History of Monetary Crimes | Alexander Del Mar | Details... |
Basil: an inspiration for the modern detective novel | Wilkie Collins | Details… |
Beowulf | Anonymous | Details… |
Between The Acts (not for sale in the U.S.A.) | Virginia Woolf | Details… |
Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | Details… |
Captain Blood: with two explanatory maps of the Caribbean Region | Raphael Sabatini | Details... |
Captains Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | Details... |
Common Sense | Thomas Paine | Details... |
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | Thomas de Quincy | Details... |
Coningsby: or The New generation; unabridged | Benjamin Disraeli | Details... |
David Balfour: the fast-paced sequel to ‘Kidnapped’ | Robert Louis Stevenson | Details… |
Diary of a Nobody | George Grossmith | Details… |
Dubliners | James Joyce | Details… |
England, My England | D. H. Lawrence | Details… |
Erewhon, or Over the Range | Samuel Butler | Details… |
Evelina: with introduction by Austin Dobson, and Hugh Thomson's 81 classic illustrations | Frances Burney | Details... |
Female Caligula: Ranavalona, Madagascar's Mad Queen | Keith Laidler | Details... |
Flatland - a romance of many dimensions | Edwin Abbott | Details… |
Flush: a biography; with Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's poem (not for sale in the U.S.A.) | Virginia Woolf | Details… |
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus | Mary W. Shelley | Details… |
Herland | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Details… |
Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial); The Garden of Cyrus; Letter to a Friend | Thomas Browne | Details... |
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow | Jerome K. Jerome | Details… |
Imperialism, the Highest Stage Capitalism – A Popular Outline: Unabridged, with original tables and footnotes | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | Details... |
Leaves of Grass - 1855 edition | Walt Whitman | Details… |
Letters Concerning the English Nation | Voltaire | Details... |
Looking Backwards, from 2000 to 1887 | Edward Bellamy | Details… |
Maria; or the Wrongs of Woman | Mary Wollstonecraft | Details... |
Maxims Extracted from Poor Richard's Almanac | Benjamin Franklin | Details... |
Memoirs of Emma Courtney – an 18th century feminist classic | Mary Hays | Details... |
Moving the Mountain | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Details... |
Mrs. Dalloway (not for sale in the U.S.A.) | Virginia Woolf | Details… |
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution | Peter Kropotkin | Details... |
My Antonia | Willa Cather | Details... |
My Mom's Cookbook | Jasmin Jeanette Cross | Details... |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Unabridged, with chronology, bibliography and map | Frederick Douglass | Details... |
News from Nowhere, Or, an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance | William Morris | Details… |
On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | Details… |
Orlando (not for sale in the U.S.A.) | Virginia Woolf | Details… |
Oroonoko, Prince of Abyssinia | Aphra Behn | Details… |
Plain Tales from the Hills | Rudyard Kipling | Details… |
Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy | Henry George | Details... |
Rhinegold – The Valkyries; and The Ring of the Nibelung | Richard Wagner | Details... |
Rights of Man | Thomas Paine | Details… |
Second Treatise of Government | John Locke | Details… |
Self-Reliance, and Other Essays, (Series One) | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Details… |
Silas Marner | George Eliot | Details… |
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin | P. D. Ouspensky | Details... |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: with 13 original Sidney Paget illustrations (2nd. ed.) | Arthur Conan Doyle | Details... |
The Age of Reason | Thomas Paine | Details… |
The Art of War: timeless military strategy from 6th Century China | Sun Tzu | Details… |
The Arthashastra | Kautilya | Details... |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin (ed. Frank Woodworth Pine) | Details... |
The Carton Chronicles: The Curious Tale of Flagman's True Father | Keith Laidler | Details... |
The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | Details… |
The Coming Race (revised 2nd edition) | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Details… |
The Complete Brigadier Gerard | Arthur Conan Doyle | Details... |
The Conquest of Bread | Peter Kropotkin | Details... |
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind | Gustave Le Bon | Details... |
The Dead | James Joyce | Details... |
The Double | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Details… |
The Elusive Pimpernel | Baroness Emma Orczy | Details... |
The Europeans | Henry James | Details… |
The First Men in the Moon | H. G. Wells | Details… |
The Four Feathers | A.E.W. Mason | Details... |
The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Details… |
The Genealogy of Morals: with original footnotes & biographical note on author | Friedrich Nietzsche | Details... |
The Germania and the Agricola | Cornelius Tacitus | Details... |
The Good Soldier | Ford Madox Ford | Details… |
The Great God Pan | Arthur Machen | Details... |
The History of Mary prince, A West Indian Slave; with the Narrative of Asa-Asa, A Captured African | Mary Prince | Details... |
The House of Mirth: With Edith Wharton's Sought-After 'Introduction to the 1936 Edition' | Edith Wharton | Details… |
The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | Details... |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African | Olaudah Equiano | Details... |
The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | Details... |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | H. G. Wells | Details… |
The Island of Sheep | John Buchan | Details… |
The Last Empress: The She-Dragon of China | Keith Laidler | Details... |
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Emma Orczy | Details... |
The Lion and the Unicorn | Orwell, George | Details... |
The Lost World | Arthur Conan Doyle | Details… |
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius | Marcus Aurelius | Details… |
The Old Wives' Tale | Arnold Bennett | Details... |
The Picture of Dorian Gray (revised edition, 2016) | Oscar Wilde | Details… |
The Poems of Sappho: A New Rendering... | Stacpoole, Henry de Vere | Details... |
The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli | Details... |
The Purple Land | William Henry Hudson | Details... |
The Railway Children | Edith Nesbit | Details... |
The Road to Wigan Pier | George orwell | Details... |
The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Details… |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Emma Orczy | Details... |
The Secret Glory | Arthur Machen | Details... |
The Sign of the Four | Arthur Conan Doyle | Details… |
The Sleeper Awakes | H. G. Wells | Details… |
The Social Contract | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Details... |
The Sorrows of Young Werther |
Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe |
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The Souls of Black Folk |
William Edward Du Bois |
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The State and Revolution: Lenin's explanation of communist society |
Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) |
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The Story of My Life: with album of 18 archive photos |
Helen Keller |
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Illustrated |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Subjection of Women | John Stuart Mill | Details… |
The Time Machine (Revised 2nd. ed.) | H. G. Wells | Details... |
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus: with introduction by William Modlen, M.A. Oxon.; edited, with notes by, The Rev. A. Dyce | Christopher Marlowe | Details... |
The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | Details… |
The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley | Details… |
The Waves (not for sale in the U.S.A.) | Virginia Woolf | Details… |
The White Company |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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The Witch Cult in Western Europe; the original text with Notes, Bibliography and five Appendices | Margaret Murray | Details... |
The Worm Ouroboros |
E. R. Eddison |
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The Yellow Wallpaper; (and) Woman, Gilman's acclaimed feminine poetry |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | Details… |
Thus Spake Zarathustra: a book for all and none; translated by Thomas Common, with introduction by Mrs. Forster-Nietzsche, and notes by Anthony Ludovici | Friedrich Nietzsche | Details... |
To The Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | Details... |
Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story of Black Slavery. With Original Illustrations | Solomon Northup | Details… |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Beecher Stowe, Harriet | Details... |
Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill | Details... |
Utopia | Thomas More | Details... |
Walden | Henry David Thoreau | Details… |
Wars: Revolution and Restitution. Poems and paintings by author. |
J. A. Moss | Details... |
What is to be Done? | V. I. Lenin | Details... |
With Her in Ourland | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Details... |
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands: A Black Nurse in the Crimean War | Mary Seacole | Details… |