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Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Bronte’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in...

"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese...

It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the...

'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it....

A dazzling collection of early stories and later fragments which throw an entirely new light on Jane Austen. In particular, they...

Conrad’s foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest...

From Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the three magnificent novels – published in an omnibus edition for the first time – that form...

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun...

Wilkie Collins’ novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860 when everything from dances to dresses was...

In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred...

The Tin Drum presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the...

Set partly in Florence, partly in the Surrey hills, A Room With A View depicts the struggle for the soul of its enchanting...

The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of...

Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for...

'It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and what not,' says Bertie. 'If I had...

In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge...

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It...

Ernest Ralph Gorse's heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles...

The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But...

This is the first time Elizabeth Taylor's short stories have been collected in one volume. This publication is to mark the...

'How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then...

John and Laura have come to Venice to try and escape the pain of their young daughter's death. But when they encounter two old...

In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a...

Scott... , Oliphant...

This collection of Scottish short stories has been chosen to give as wide as possible a picture of Scottish fiction of the...

Edith Wharton (1862-1937), the grande dame of American literature, was also a subtle and spirited critic of its...

Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious)...

No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects the beloved tales of Arabian...

Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A...