A Christmas Carol is added to FlipClassics 1.9, it  is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge’s ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts [...]

The Wind in the Willows is added to FlipClassics 1.8,  it is a classic of children’s literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its [...]

Anna Karenina is added to FlipClassics 1.7, it  is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment; therefore, the novel’s [...]

The Secret Garden is added to FlipClassics 1.6, it is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911.

Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to [...]

Treasure Island is added to FlipClassics 1.5, it is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “pirates and buried gold”. First published as a book on 23rd May 1883, it was originally serialized in the children’s magazine

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. This is the second of Dostoyevsky’s full-length novels following his return from five years of exile [...]

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is added to FlipClassics 1.3, some small typography errors in War & Peace is also fixed.

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by [...]

War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is regarded as Tolstoy’s finest literary achievement, along with his other work Anna Karenina (1873–1877).

War and Peace [...]

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). It is the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first [...]

In version 1.0 of FlipClassics, when the first time that user opens one book, it will flip to the title page instead of page 1, this problem now already been fixed in version 1.1. Thanks Adam Roche for this advice.