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The Moonstone is one of the first true works of detective fiction, in which Wilkie Collins established the groundwork for the...

Anthony Trollope's story of one man's obsessive self-deception pitted against against the enduring power of his wife's love, He...

Shamela is a brilliant parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, in which a virtuous servant girl long resists her master's advances...

'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens's...

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to...

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent...

Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and...

The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in...

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the...

Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes by...

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential...

After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the...

This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel...

Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate...

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The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and...

Henry James's third novel is an exploration of his most powerful, perennial theme - the clash between European and American...

A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting...

Originally published in 1823, The Pioneers is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates...

Meet Stanley Williams: Single, in his thirties, grieving the death of his Jamaican father and wondering if there is more to life...

A coming-of-age tale to make the muses themselves roar with laughter and weep for pity -- sassy, razor-sharp and...

Bee Beahorn had it all - a successful music career, fabulous friends, and a glamorous celebrity lifestyle.

At least, that's...

An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to life

In 1857 when Captain...

The smash-hit romantic comedy from the author of The Girls and Then She Was Gone

Six people, one big house and the party that...

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and...

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter...

After Rain - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor

In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely...

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...

With this novel Sharon Penman moves to a new set of characters and to 12th Century England and the early civil war between...

1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseydale. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains...