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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 the well-known titles you can read in the original — start with Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work, Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments and Âmona; The Child; And The Beast; And Others: From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902. Each one is labelled with a CEFR level, any word you do not know is one selection away from a translation, and the narration reads the page aloud while it highlights the words.
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Level C2Classics"A Most Unholy Trade," Being Letters on the Drama by Henry JamesExplore intimate letters revealing intense reflections on Ibsen’s play "Little Eyolf," blending sharp theatrical critique with vivid impressions of drama’s power and complexity.
Level C1Classics"A Modern Hercules," the Tale of a SculptressIn a city torn between wealth and poverty, a bold sculptress shatters societal norms with her daring art, while a fiery preacher challenges the congregation on morality and hypocri…
Level C1Classics"A Cathcart or a Riggs?"In a turbulent Western mining town, the fiery and unpredictable Pearl Brown ignites reform and rivalry, challenging the status quo with bold actions and sharp wit.
Level A2PoetryA Child's Garden of VersesStevenson's beloved collection of short, musical poems about childhood — swings, shadows, ships, and bedtime.
Level C1Science FictionA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtThe classic science-fiction novel by Mark Twain.
Level C1ClassicsA Tale of Two CitiesThe classic historical novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1RomanceA pair of blue eyesThe classic romance novel by Thomas Hardy.
Level B2AdventureAdventures of Huckleberry FinnThe classic adventure novel by Mark Twain.
Level B1FantasyAlice's Adventures in WonderlandDown the rabbit-hole into a logic-bending world of riddles and talking creatures.
Level C2RomanceAnna KareninaThe classic romance novel by Leo, graf Tolstoy.
Level B1Children'sAnne of Green GablesThe classic historical novel by L.
Level B2AdventureAround the World in Eighty DaysPhileas Fogg wagers his fortune on circling the globe in just eighty days.
Level C1HistoricalAutobiography of Benjamin FranklinThe classic historical novel by Benjamin Franklin.
Level C2PhilosophyBeyond Good and EvilThe classic philosophy novel by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
Level C2PhilosophyBiographia LiterariaThe classic philosophy novel by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Level C1RomanceCamille (La Dame aux Camilias)The classic romance novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Level B2AdventureCatrionaThe classic romance novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Level C1ClassicsCranfordThe classic classics novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
Level C1ClassicsCrime and PunishmentThe classic mystery novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Level C1ClassicsDavid CopperfieldThe classic classics novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1HorrorDraculaLetters and journals trace a vampire's voyage from the Carpathians to London.
Level C2RomanceEloisa : $b or, A series of original lettersThe classic romance novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Level C2PoetryErotica RomanaThe classic romance novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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 B2HorrorFrankensteinA young scientist builds a living being from death — and abandons what he makes.
Level C1ClassicsGreat ExpectationsThe classic classics novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1AdventureGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the WorldThe classic adventure novel by Jonathan Swift.
Level C2ClassicsHistory of Tom Jones, a FoundlingThe classic classics novel by Henry Fielding.
Level C1RomanceJane Eyre: An AutobiographyThe classic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë.
Level B2AdventureKidnappedThe classic adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Level C2ClassicsLes MisérablesThe classic historical novel by Victor Hugo.
Level B2HistoricalLife on the MississippiThe classic adventure novel by Mark Twain.
Level B1Children'sLittle Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and AmyThe classic childrens novel by Louisa May Alcott.
Level C1RomanceManon LescautThe classic romance novel by abbé Prévost.
Level C2ClassicsMiddlemarchThe classic romance novel by George Eliot.
Level C2AdventureMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleThe classic adventure novel by Herman Melville.
Level C1HistoricalNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveThe classic historical novel by Frederick Douglass.
Level C1ClassicsOliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)The classic mystery novel by Charles Dickens.
Level C1RomancePride and PrejudiceWit, pride and slow-burning love in the drawing rooms of Regency England.
Level C2RomanceRomeo and JulietThe classic romance novel by William Shakespeare.
Level B2AdventureRoughing ItThe classic adventure novel by Mark Twain.
Level C1RomanceSense and SensibilityThe classic romance novel by Jane Austen.
Level C2AdventureThe Adventures of Roderick RandomThe classic adventure novel by T.
Level B2AdventureThe Adventures of Tom SawyerMischief, caves and buried treasure along the Mississippi River.
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 C2ClassicsThe Brothers KaramazovThe classic classics novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Level B2AdventureThe Call of the WildStolen into the Yukon gold rush, a dog heeds the ancient call of the wild.
Level B2MysteryThe Complete Sherlock HolmesDeduction, fog and gaslight — the complete canon of the world's first consulting detective.