Alexandre Dumas • 1844
The Count of Monte Cristo
Wrongly imprisoned for 14 years, Edmond Dantès escapes and becomes fabulously wealthy to exact perfect revenge on those who betrayed him.
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Herman Melville • 1851
Moby-Dick
Captain Ahab's monomaniacal quest for revenge against a white whale leads his crew toward inevitable doom.
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Mark Twain • 1884
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A runaway boy and an escaped slave float down the Mississippi River on a raft, encountering con artists, feuding families, and the moral contradictions of pre-Civil War America in Mark Twain's masterpiece of vernacular storytelling and social satire.
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Miguel de Cervantes • 1605
Don Quixote
A man reads so many chivalric romances he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant, tilting at windmills.
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Ernest Hemingway • 1952
The Old Man and the Sea
An aging Cuban fisherman battles a giant marlin for three days, teaching lessons about endurance and dignity in defeat.
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Yann Martel • 2001
Life of Pi
A boy survives 227 days stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, but which version of his story is true?
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Homer • -800
The Odyssey
Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home from the Trojan War, facing monsters, gods, and his own pride.
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