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'The horror! The horror!'

Seaman Charlie Marlowe lakes a decaying steamboat on a perilous voyage to the heart of Africa. His...

The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the American Jazz Age. It is the story of a fundamentally innocent man...

Originally entitled The Saddest Story, this is a heartbreaking, yet darkly witty, tale of betrayal and conflict in the years...

Alexei Ivanovich is tutor to a Russian family in a German spa town. They are bankrupt and eagerly awaiting the death of their...

''Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. "
First written during the sixth...

When the mild-mannered Lambert Strether travels from America to Paris on a mission to 'save' Chad, the son of his formidable...

"Who knows, he may grow up to be President some day, unless they hang him first!"
Aunt Polly's assessment of Tom's character...

Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include A...

To escape from his violent, drunken father, Huckleberry Finn, a thirteen-year-old boy from the wrong side of the tracks, fakes...

The French Riviera of the mid-1920s is the new playground for rich Americans, among them elegant heiress Nicole Warren and her...

Sons and Lovers (1913) is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man's struggle for emotional independence.
Trapped in a...

The Dashwood sisters - 19-year-old Elinor and Marianne, aged 17 - are left poor and homeless by their father's death. Although...

"It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
The...

In The Portrait of a Lady. (1881), spirited young Isabel Archer travels from her home in Albany, New York, eager to discover what...

'l am half agony, half hope.'
Anne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the...

'There is grandeur in this view of life ... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,...

"Please, sir, I want some more."
Oliver Twist sent out shock waves when it appeared in 1838. With a half-starved orphan for a...

Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is...

Arcturus Crime Classics showcase unjustly neglected works by great writers from the 1930s - the so-called golden age of crime...

Inspired by real-life events, this epic tale features a young sailor, Ishmael, who yearns for adventure aboard a whaling ship. In...

"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul."
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis tells the tale of Gregor Samsa,...

"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power,...

Jane Eyre rightly remains high on the list of the most popular English novels, and brought fame to its author, Charlotte Brontd,...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river...

A shipwreck brings Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, where he finds himself in a kingdom of tiny people. This experience is later...

Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy
Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

Great Expectations (1861) is a favourite among many Dickens readers. In addition to its endearing hero, Pip - a blacksmith's boy,...

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and...

Into the sleepy village of Weatherbury arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm....