May 30, 2025
Unabridged classics, fully explained
Understand every word.
Classics get hard when the words stop making sense. Our editions keep the complete original text and add what you need to follow it: full glossaries, character and location guides, and the history behind the story.
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“The fact that gossip had published the was one of the reasons I had come east.”
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banns: a notice read out at church on three successive Sundays.
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“wherefore the clerk put on his white ”
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comforter: a long neck scarf.
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“It’s as as you or me”
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wick: alive or lively.
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“a worshipful crowd of dogbusters and ”
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mushers: the drivers of dogsleds.
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“They very soon came upon a , lying fast asleep in the sun.”
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Gryphon: a mythical creature with the head and wings of an eagle and a lion’s body.
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The bookshelf
All books and details
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winnie-the-Pooh
A. A. Milne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
What you get
A dictionary won’t tell you what Dickens meant.
A word from 1843 may have changed its meaning, or may not be in your dictionary at all. So we look up each one in context, and put the answer in the back of the book.
- Glossary
- Every dated, specialized, or slang term, defined for the way it’s used in that sentence.
- Character guide
- Who everyone is and where they first appear, so you never have to flip back and wonder.
- Location guide
- Where the places are and why they matter, including the ones that no longer go by that name.
- Historical context
- The world the author was writing in, and what its first readers already knew.
- About the author
- A biographical article on the person behind the book.
- The whole book
- The full, unabridged text. Nothing simplified, nothing cut, nothing rewritten.
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