Sense and Sensibility
Two sisters, one whittled inheritance, and Austen’s first perfect machine of people saying one thing and meaning another. Read it before the film arrives in theaters this October.
Your shelf · The annotated ones
The books with pages of their own
The app holds more than sixty prepared classics; these are the ones with a room of their own on this site — family trees, character guides, audiobook details. More rooms are being furnished.
Wuthering Heights
Two houses, two generations, two Catherines. Has the family tree everyone eventually needs and the free audiobook that reads along, in Ruth Golding’s performance.
Crime and Punishment
The most readable of the great Russian novels, once the names stop multiplying. The characters page untangles every Rodya, and the colors keep them untangled. Anchor of the Russian novels collection.
The Great Gatsby
The newest room on the shelf. Gatsby in red, Daisy’s money-gold voice, the whole novel narrated at one remove. A page on what East Egg and West Egg really are, and the read-along audiobook in Kara Shallenberg’s performance.
Carmilla
The vampire novella that beat Dracula to print by twenty-five years, and the love story readers still argue about. Its room is a conversation — two readers asking whether it's a love story or a warning, with the critics quoted and every line checked against the text. Annexed to the room: every edition, compared, the Dracula evidence, and the Hungerstone question.
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Change how the page is set
If the difficulty is the page itself rather than the plot, the reading surface bends — OpenDyslexic and four other faces with three line-spacing tiers, narration matched line by line, or the re-entry tools for a mind that wanders.
The four featured books above are free in full, tonight, colors and all — and Carmilla is on the shelf beside them.
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