Authors

Classics Retold publishes modern English translations of public domain literature — bringing the greatest writers in history to readers who want the real thing, not a summary. Browse our authors below.

A

Alexandre Dumas

French · 46 books

Alexander Pushkin

Russian · 3 books

Alain-Fournier

French · 1 book

Alexander Bogdanov

Russian · 1 book

Alexandre Dumas fils

French · 1 book

C

Charles Baudelaire

English · 1 book

C

Colette

French · 1 book

D

Denis Diderot

French · 4 books

Dante Alighieri

Italian · 2 books

E

Ernest Hemingway

English · 2 books

F

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Russian · 15 books

FN

Friedrich Nietzsche

German · 10 books

Franz Kafka

German · 5 books

G

George Sand

French · 5 books

Guy de Maupassant

French · 5 books

Grigori Danilevski

Russian · 1 book

Gustave Flaubert

French · 1 book

H

HD

Honoré de Balzac

French · 7 books

Hector Malot

English · 2 books

Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian · 1 book

Herman Melville

English · 1 book

J

Jules Verne

French · 66 books

JB

Jules Barbey D’aurevilly

Portuguese · 3 books

Jane Austen

English · 2 books

John Milton

English · 2 books

JR

José Rizal

Spanish · 1 book

Juan Valera

English · 1 book

K

Knut Hamsun

Norwegian · 1 book

L

Leo Tolstoy

Russian · 16 books

Lewis Carroll

Spanish · 1 book

Louis Pergaud

French · 1 book

M

Marcel Proust

French · 8 books

Maurice Leblanc

French · 3 books

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish · 2 books

Mary Shelley

English · 1 book

Mikhail Artsybashev

Russian · 1 book

N

Nathaniel Hawthorne

French · 1 book

NM

Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian · 1 book

Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky

Russian · 1 book

Nikolai Gogol

Russian · 1 book

P

PM

Prosper Mérimée

French · 2 books

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

French · 1 book

S

Stefan Zweig

German · 26 books

Stendhal

French · 3 books

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Russian · 1 book

V

Victor Hugo

French · 11 books

V

Voltaire

French · 5 books

W

William Shakespeare

English · 1 book