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After receiving a cryptic letter, Sherlock Holmes sets off to warn a wealthy American ex-pat that he is in danger, only to find...

"For stark, living fear... what other writer is even in the running?"
- H. P. Lovecraft on Robert E. Howard.

In this...

Containing one of the best known and best loved detective novels of all time - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - this entertaining...

'I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we...

Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, heralds the return of Sherlock Holmes after his apparent...

In two of the most famous Sherlock Holmes stories, the brilliant detective uses his impressive powers of deduction to unravel the...

Benjamin Button is born as an old man, but as time passes, he gradually grows younger. As he grows up, he encounters prejudice,...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous ‘Sketches of Young Ladies’ in 1837, their...

Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created,...

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"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and...

Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The...