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What are the best classics classics to read in English as a learner?
The best classics classics for English learners are graded readers of well-known titles — start with The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Ulysses and Fifty Famous Stories Retold. Each is rewritten at a clear CEFR level with tap-to-translate, audio narration and saved vocabulary, so you read a real story while building English at your own pace.
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Level C2ClassicsThe Expedition of Humphry ClinkerThe classic epistolary novel by Tobias Smollett.
Level C2ClassicsUlyssesThe classic novel by James Joyce.
Level A2Children'sFifty Famous Stories RetoldFifty short, famous stories from history and legend — King Alfred and the cakes, the sword of Damocles, and more — retold in plain English for young and new readers.
Level A2Children'sThe Aesop for ChildrenMore than a hundred of Aesop's fables retold for children, each a few sentences long and ending in a clear moral.
Level C2ClassicsWar and PeaceTolstoy's sweeping epic follows five aristocratic families through the Napoleonic Wars, weaving personal drama with grand historical events to create one of literature's greatest p…
Level C1ClassicsOliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)The classic mystery novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1RomanceCamille (La Dame aux Camilias)The classic romance novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Level C1RomanceA pair of blue eyesThe classic romance novel by Thomas Hardy.
Level B2AdventureKidnappedThe classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Level C1ClassicsDavid CopperfieldThe classic classics novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1MysteryThe MoonstoneThe classic mystery novel by Wilkie Collins.
Level C2ClassicsThe History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, CompleteThe classic romance novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Level B2AdventureCatrionaThe classic romance novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Level C1MysteryThe Woman in WhiteThe classic mystery novel by Wilkie Collins.
Level C2RomanceAnna KareninaThe classic romance novel by Leo, graf Tolstoy.
Level B2AdventureRoughing ItThe classic adventure novel by Mark Twain.
Level C2PhilosophyBiographia LiterariaThe classic philosophy novel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Level C2PoetryErotica RomanaThe classic romance novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Level C2PoetryThe Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verseThe classic fantasy novel by Valmiki.
Level C2ClassicsLes MisérablesThe classic historical novel by Victor Hugo.
Level B1Children'sAnne of Green GablesThe classic historical novel by L.
Level B2HistoricalThe Prince and the PauperThe classic historical novel by Mark Twain.
Level C1RomanceManon LescautThe classic romance novel by abbé Prévost.
Level C2RomanceEloisa : $b or, A series of original lettersThe classic romance novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Level C1AdventureGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the WorldThe classic adventure novel by Jonathan Swift.
Level C2GothicThe Turn of the ScrewThe classic mystery novel by Henry James.
Level C2PhilosophyBeyond Good and EvilThe classic philosophy novel by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
Level C1ClassicsThe Scarlet LetterThe classic historical novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Level C1ClassicsWhite nights, and other storiesThe classic classics novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Level C1Science FictionA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtThe classic science-fiction novel by Mark Twain.
Level C1HistoricalNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveThe classic historical novel by Frederick Douglass.
Level C1ClassicsGreat ExpectationsThe classic classics novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C2PhilosophyThe PrinceThe classic historical novel by Niccolò Machiavelli.
Level C1MysteryThe Man Who Was Thursday: A NightmareThe classic mystery novel by G.
Level C2PoetryThe Lady of the LakeThe classic romance novel by Walter Scott.
Level C1MysteryThe Mystery of Edwin DroodThe classic mystery novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1HistoricalAutobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe classic historical novel by Benjamin Franklin.
Level B2AdventureTreasure IslandThe classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Level C1RomanceSense and SensibilityThe classic romance novel by Jane Austen.
Level C1ClassicsA Tale of Two CitiesThe classic historical novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1GothicWuthering HeightsThe classic gothic novel by Emily Brontë.
Level B2AdventureAdventures of Huckleberry FinnThe classic adventure novel by Mark Twain.
Level C1GothicThe Mysteries of UdolphoThe classic mystery novel by Ann Ward Radcliffe.
Level C2AdventureThe Adventures of Roderick RandomThe classic adventure novel by T.
Level C2ClassicsHistory of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe classic classics novel by Henry Fielding.
Level B2HistoricalLife on the MississippiThe classic adventure novel by Mark Twain.
Level C1ClassicsCranfordThe classic classics novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
Level C2ClassicsThe Brothers KaramazovThe classic classics novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Level B2AdventureTwenty years afterThe classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Level B1Children'sLittle Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and AmyThe classic childrens novel by Louisa May Alcott.
Level C1RomanceJane Eyre: An AutobiographyThe classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë.
Level C2ClassicsThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareThe classic poetry novel by William Shakespeare.
Level C2ClassicsMiddlemarchThe classic romance novel by George Eliot.
Level C1ClassicsCrime and PunishmentThe classic mystery novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Level C2RomanceRomeo and JulietThe classic romance novel by William Shakespeare.
Level C2AdventureMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleThe classic adventure novel by Herman Melville.
Level B2AdventureThe Count of Monte CristoBetrayed and imprisoned, Edmond Dantès escapes to engineer a decade-spanning revenge.
Level B2MysteryThe Complete Sherlock HolmesDeduction, fog and gaslight — the complete canon of the world's first consulting detective.
Level C1RomancePride and PrejudiceWit, pride and slow-burning love in the drawing rooms of Regency England.
Level B2Science FictionTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaCaptain Nemo's submarine Nautilus carries its captives across the world's oceans.
Level B2AdventureAround the World in Eighty DaysPhileas Fogg wagers his fortune on circling the globe in just eighty days.
Level B2AdventureThe Adventures of Tom SawyerMischief, caves and buried treasure along the Mississippi River.
Level B2HorrorFrankensteinA young scientist builds a living being from death — and abandons what he makes.
Level C1HorrorDraculaLetters and journals trace a vampire's voyage from the Carpathians to London.
Level C1GothicThe Picture of Dorian GrayA portrait ages while its beautiful owner does not — Wilde’s only novel.
Level B1FantasyAlice's Adventures in WonderlandDown the rabbit-hole into a logic-bending world of riddles and talking creatures.
Level B2ClassicsThe Great GatsbyJazz-Age longing on Long Island, and the green light across the bay.
Level B2AdventureThe Call of the WildStolen into the Yukon gold rush, a dog heeds the ancient call of the wild.
Level C2PhilosophyThe City of God, Volume IThe classic work of philosophy and theology by Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Level C1PhilosophyThe Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding RemarksThe classic romance novel by Vatsyayana.
Level C2HistoricalThe Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the GreatThe classic historical novel by Arrian.
Level B1Children'sA Little PrincessWealthy, imaginative Sara Crewe is left penniless at her London boarding school and made a servant — yet keeps her kindness and courage against all odds.
Level B1Children'sHeidiOrphaned Heidi is sent to live with her gruff grandfather on a Swiss mountain, and her sunny spirit warms everyone she meets — a heart-warming Alpine classic.
Level B1Children'sThe Secret GardenSour, lonely Mary Lennox is sent to a great Yorkshire house and discovers a locked, hidden garden — and brings it, and herself, and a sickly boy, back to life.