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1883. Two young people have been killed near Portsmouth's docks. When journalist and amateur detective Leo Stanhope arrives, the...

Manchester, the summer of 1890. A city humming with industry and gleaming with affluence.

But for Charles, cloistered in his...

Dear Catherine, he began. Here I sit, making a meal out of asking you to dinner. I don't really know how to do it. To have...

Abbas has never told anyone about his past; about what happened before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife...

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a...

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky...

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring...

The most extensively annotated edition available with almost 1,000 notes by Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner

This text is...

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of...

In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio­syncratic artistic vision found space for...

Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression,...

Contains original illustrations by the author

Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was...

Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was...

When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in...

A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now...

A first-person diary of a prisoner’s final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo’s poignant tale...

Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the...

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women...

A literary classic of Japanese Young Adult Fiction
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The...

Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "let the punishment...

When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes...

W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a...

A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where...

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll...

Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives...

When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters...

Saddened by the subjugation of Italy under Napoleon, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university...

Set in a big Dublin hotel of the mid-nineteenth century, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a total theatre creation. In it, we...

Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes...