Wonder Novels

Classic Literature Reimagined and Illustrated

Wonder Novels is one of the libraries of WonderBooks — classic literature reimagined and illustrated, each told in ~10 illustrated pages with narration. There's a free library you can read without paying.

All 133 Wonder Novels stories

• A Sportsman's Sketches — Ivan Turgenev
  A Sportsman's Sketches — Ivan Turgenev — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• A Christmas Carol (kids)
  The story of a miser, three Christmas ghosts, and a second chance
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (kids)
  A modern man, an ancient kingdom, and an adventure through time
• A Hero of Our Time
  A restless young officer, the people he uses up along the way, and the Caucasus mountains that outlast all of them
• A Nest of Gentlefolk
  A nobleman's return, a fleeting hope of love, and a life of quiet sorrow
• A Tale of Two Cities
  London and Paris, a face mistaken for another man's, and the life one of them gives so the other can live
• Anna Karenina
  A married woman, a count, and a love that costs her everything
• Around the Moon (kids)
  Three travelers shot from a cannon, a meteor that quietly bends their course, and the long, cold loop around a world they never quite land on
• Around the World in Eighty Days (kids)
  A gentleman's wager, a servant's loyalty, and a race across every ocean and continent on Earth
• Billy Budd, Sailor
  A young sailor pressed onto a King's ship, a master-at-arms who hated him without cause, and the single blow that the Articles of War could not forgive
• Bleak House
  A vast inheritance case poisons the lives of all it touches.
• Blood and Sand
  A bullfighter's rise and tragic fall in the sun-drenched arenas of Seville
• Botchan (kids)
  A young teacher's impulsive journey from Tokyo to the unruly students of Matsuyama
• Candide
  A young man taught that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the long hard road across three continents that answers him
• Carmen
  A classic tale of passion, jealousy, and fate in 19th-century Spain
• Catriona
  A story of love, honour, and political danger in 18th-century Scotland
• Childhood, Boyhood, Youth — Leo Tolstoy
  Childhood, Boyhood, Youth — Leo Tolstoy — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• Crime and Punishment
  A desperate theory, two murders, and the long road from a Petersburg garret to confession in Siberia
• David Copperfield (kids)
  A boy who loses almost everyone, and finds out, slowly, who was faithful all along
• Dead Souls
  A gentleman travels the back roads of Russia buying up the names of serfs who are already dead
• Demons (The Possessed) — Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Demons (The Possessed) — Fyodor Dostoevsky — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• Dom Casmurro
  A Faithful Compression of Machado de Assis's Classic Novel
• Don Quixote
  Don Quixote — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• Dracula
  An ancient evil comes to London, and a small band of heroes must hunt it down before the darkness consumes them all.
• Dubrovsky
  A feud between nobles, a son's revenge, and a love that came too late.
• Effi Briest
  A woman's spirit, constrained by duty and the weight of society's judgment
• Emma (kids)
  A clever young woman, a kind friend, and lessons learned about love and life
• Eugene Onegin
  A bored aristocrat, a woman who loved him, and the duel that ruined them both
• Far from the Madding Crowd
  A shepherd, a farmer, and a soldier — and the one woman all three loved
• Fathers and Sons
  A young nihilist comes home to the Russian countryside, and finds that believing in nothing is harder than it sounds
• Faust, Part One
  A scholar's pact with the devil, and the tragic fate of an innocent girl
• First Love
  A sixteen-year-old's passionate first summer, his captivating older neighbour, and the terrible secret that binds them to his own father
• Fortunata and Jacinta
  A Tale of Love, Class, and Fate in Old Madrid
• Germinal
  A mining town, a hungry strike, and the slow stubborn growth of something that will not stay buried
• Gooseberries — Anton Chekhov
  Gooseberries — Anton Chekhov — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• Great Expectations (kids)
  An orphan, a convict in a churchyard, and a fortune that comes from the last place he ever expects
• Growth of the Soil
  A pioneer's journey from a wild mountainside to a thriving farm
• Gulliver's Travels (kids)
  A shipwrecked surgeon among six-inch people, and then among giants eleven times his size
• Hadji Murat
  A chieftain's defiance and a tragic fate in the Caucasus
• Hard Times
  A story of facts versus fancy, and a city built on cold reason
• Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning (kids)
  A mountain girl, a city friend, and the healing power of the Alps
• Hunger
  A solitary writer's descent into the depths of a city's indifference and his own unraveling mind
• Immensee
  An old man's memory of a childhood love, a forgotten promise, and a life lived with quiet regret.
• Ivanhoe (kids)
  A knight returns in disguise, a tournament, a siege and a trial by combat for a lady's life
• Journey to the West (kids)
  The incredible pilgrimage of the Tang Monk and his three powerful disciples
• Jude the Obscure
  A stonemason's dream of scholarship, and the two women who defined his tragedy
• Kidnapped (kids)
  A young heir kidnapped into peril, and the friend who helps him claim his fortune
• King Solomon's Mines (kids)
  An incredible journey to a lost land, a king's treasure, and a perilous adventure
• Kokoro
  The Heart of a Man: A Secret and a Legacy
• Lazarillo de Tormes (kids)
  The life and fortunes of a boy who served many masters
• Les Misérables
  A stolen loaf, a forgiving Bishop, and the many lives one man spends trying to make up for it
• Madame Bovary
  A doctor's wife in a small Norman town, and the life she wanted instead of the one she had
• Martín Fierro (kids)
  The song of a gaucho's life, his sorrows, and his search for freedom on the Pampa
• Michael Strogoff (kids)
  The Tsar's Courier: A perilous journey across Siberia to save a nation
• Middlemarch
  A young woman who wanted a great life, a scholar who could not give her one, and a whole English town learning what its people are really made of
• Moby-Dick
  An old captain's hunt across the whole ocean for the one white whale that took his leg
• My Ántonia (kids)
  A boy from Virginia, a Bohemian farm girl, and the Nebraska prairie that raised them both
• Northanger Abbey (kids)
  A young lady, a gothic imagination, and the adventure of finding true love in Bath and beyond
• Notes from Underground
  The bitter confession of a man from St. Petersburg's shadows
• Oblomov
  A nobleman so comfortable in bed that love, fortune and his own best years went by without him once getting up
• Oliver Twist
  The parish boy's progress from a workhouse to a home
• On the Eve
  An idealistic young woman finds the hero she is waiting for, on the eve of a nation's war for freedom
• Père Goriot
  A father who gave his daughters everything he had, and the young man from the provinces who watched it happen
• Persuasion
  A second chance for love, found after years of regret and separation.
• Pride and Prejudice (kids)
  The story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, and the journey from first impressions to true love.
• Quo Vadis
  Quo Vadis — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• Robinson Crusoe (kids)
  A castaway, an island, and twenty-eight years alone — until a single footprint in the sand changes everything
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (kids)
  A faithful retelling of the classic Chinese novel by Luo Guanzhong
• Rudin
  A man of great ideas and no will, who lived a life of brilliant failures
• Sense and Sensibility (kids)
  A story of two sisters, their hearts, and the choices that shaped their lives
• Silas Marner (kids)
  A lonely weaver, his stolen gold, and the golden-haired child who came to his fire instead
• Taras Bulba
  An old Cossack, his two sons, and the war that tested their loyalties to the breaking point
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  A countrywoman wronged, a love that cannot forgive it, and a law that will not
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (kids)
  An extraordinary journey of tall tales and grand adventures
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (kids)
  A boy, a runaway man, and a raft on the big river between them
• The Age of Innocence
  A New York lawyer, the woman he cannot marry, and a whole world built to keep them apart
• The Awakening
  Kate Chopin's novel of one woman, one Louisiana summer, and a self she could not put back to sleep
• The Betrothed
  A tale of two lovers separated by tyranny and reunited by faith amidst a plague
• The Black Monk
  A brilliant mind, a beautiful garden, and the vision that promised greatness at a terrible cost
• The Black Tulip (kids)
  A scientist's obsession, a jailer's daughter, and the quest for a perfect flower in old Holland
• The Brothers Karamazov
  A father, three sons, the woman they all wanted, and the murder that convicts the wrong brother
• The Call of the Wild (kids)
  A faithful retelling of Jack London's classic tale of a dog's journey to the wild
• The Captain's Daughter (kids)
  A young officer, a rebel leader who remembers a kindness, and the fortress on the Russian steppe
• The Cossacks
  A young man's quest for a simple life in the wild Caucasus
• The Count of Monte Cristo
  Faithfully compressed: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844.
• The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  A judge discovers, in his last illness, that the comfortable life he built was never the real one
• The Duel
  Two men, one woman, and a summer of shame on the Black Sea coast
• The Fall of the House of Usher
  A dying twin, a sentient house, and the one night they both gave way
• The Gambler
  A tutor's obsession with a woman, a family's desperation for an inheritance, and the fever of the roulette wheel
• The Home and the World
  A woman's awakening, a nation's turmoil, and the true cost of freedom
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (kids)
  A deadly family legend, a lonely moor, and the detective who proved the curse was a man, not a monster
• The House of Mirth
  A beautiful woman, a world that keeps her and will not keep her, and the one chance at happiness she lets slip through her fingers
• The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  A bellringer, a dancer, and the cathedral that watched over both of them
• The Idiot
  A good man in a bad world, and the two women who loved him
• The Lady with the Dog
  A holiday romance in Yalta, and the unexpected love that followed
• The Last of the Mohicans (kids)
  A scout, a Mohican chief, his son, and two sisters caught between two armies in the forests of 1757
• The Lost World (kids)
  A journey to a hidden plateau where dinosaurs still roam
• The Man in the Iron Mask (kids)
  The Secret Twin, the King's Deception, and the Four Loyal Swords
• The Master of Ballantrae
  A feud between two brothers that crossed the world and ended in one grave
• The Mayor of Casterbridge
  A hay-trusser who sold his wife for five guineas, and everything he built and lost trying to live it down
• The Metamorphosis
  A faithful retelling of Franz Kafka’s classic novel about a man transformed into an insect
• The Nose
  The strange case of a civil servant who woke up one morning to find his nose was gone
• The Overcoat
  A poor clerk, a magnificent new coat, and the ghost who haunts St. Petersburg
• The Phantom of the Opera
  An angel, a genius, a beautiful voice, and a terrible face in the Paris Opéra
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
  A portrait that stays young forever, and the man who does not
• The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
  A dead man's life, his loves, his failings, and his curious philosophical legacy in 19th-century Rio
• The Prisoner of Zenda (kids)
  An English gentleman, a stolen throne, and a royal secret in Ruritania
• The Queen of Spades
  A secret of three cards, a desperate young man, and a night at the gambling table
• The Red and the Black
  A carpenter's son climbs on ambition and love, in a France that never forgets a man's rank
• The Red Badge of Courage (kids)
  A young soldier marches to his first battle, not knowing whether he will run
• The Return of the Native
  A wild heath, a woman who longed for the world, and the man who returned to the home she longed to escape
• The Scarlet Letter
  A woman, a scarlet letter, and the secret that outlived it
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (kids)
  The brave English nobleman who rescued families from the French Revolution
• The Sea-Wolf
  A literary critic thrown overboard into a captain's fists, and the long voyage that broke them both
• The Sorrows of Young Werther
  A passionate heart's journey through love and despair
• The Steppe
  The story of a nine-year-old boy's long journey across the vast Russian plain
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  A London lawyer, a locked door, and the one man who was also his own worst enemy
• The Tale of Genji
  The Shining Prince, his forbidden loves, and the weight of his legacy
• The Blizzard
  A snowy night, a lost bridegroom, and the stranger who took his place
• The Thousand and One Nights: Sinbad's Seven Voyages (kids)
  A humble porter hears the wondrous tales of Sinbad the Sailor and his seven incredible journeys across the seas
• The Three Musketeers (kids)
  A young man, three sworn friends, and a fight for justice in old France
• The Trial
  An ordinary man, an unknown accusation, and the crushing weight of an unseen court
• The Velveteen Rabbit (kids)
  The Velveteen Rabbit — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• Treasure Island (kids)
  A dead man's map, a one-legged cook, and the gold buried under Flint's cross
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (kids)
  The deep-sea adventures of Professor Aronnax and the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
  Uncle Tom's Cabin — an illustrated literature story. 10 illustrated pages, free to read on Wonder Novels.
• Vanity Fair
  A clever, friendless girl claws her way up through London society — and the steady, honest people she leaves behind
• Viy
  Three nights in a haunted church, and the student who looked when he was told not to
• War and Peace
  A prince, a wandering heir, and the woman they both loved, carried through the drawing rooms of Petersburg and the battlefields of Napoleon's Russia
• Ward No. 6
  A doctor's philosophical apathy is tested when he is declared mad and locked in his own asylum.
• White Fang (kids)
  A wolf cub born in the frozen North, sold to a cruel man, and saved by the one master who was ever kind to him
• Wuthering Heights
  A farmhouse on the moor, an orphan boy taken in, and the love between him and Catherine that outlasted them both

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