Classics Digests is the new way to read your favourite classic books. Simply select the authors and texts you're interested in reading, and we'll email you a short extract every morning. You'll be able to read the classics at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home. Best of all, having the great works of world literature delivered to you by email will leave you with no excuse not to catch up on all the reading you've always wanted to do--read all of Dickens in a month, or all of Shakespeare in a year! Sign up to start receiving Digests now Send a gift subscription to a friend [learn more] You may also like to try our daily quotations email, The Daily Muse, to receive a thought-provoking philosophical quotation in your inbox every morning. [learn more] Subscribing to Digests is free. However, one user may subscribe to only three different texts. If you would like to subscribe to more than three texts, you will need to purchase our Classics Digital Library, which includes a Classics Lifetime Membership and unlimited Digest subscriptions.

 

Key features

When you sign up to Classics Digest, you'll be able to customise your subscription so that you receive what you want at the pace which is most comfortable for you. Some of the key features of Classics Digests:

• read what you want: choose the authors and texts you want to read, from a selection of hundreds of authors and thousands of texts [view a list of available titles]

• specify the frequency: how often you'd like to receive your digest emails

• specify the length: tell us how many words you'd like your digest emails to be

• calculate your reading time: using the length and frequency you've specified, the system will automatically calculate how long it will take you to read a particular text, allowing you to decide precisely how much you need to read every day to have a particular text finished in a certain timeframe

• change your subscription at any time through our Users' Centre

• each digest email includes interactivity features, including a link to the messageboard for the text, so that you can engage in discussions with other readers 

• the option to request to have the next instalment delivered to you immediately, enabling you to keep reading at your own pace

• features to keep track of where you are in the text, allowing you to monitor your reading progress

Gift subscriptions

Literature and philosophy can be inspiring, provocative, educational, liberating, romantic--share all this with a friend, colleague, or partner by sending a gift subscription of the Classics Digest today. Choose the authors and texts which you think will interest your friend, supply their email address, and we take care of the rest.