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In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes...

When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have...

Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry...

The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author's other...

The Radetsky March is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the...

George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who...

This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several...

A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, Animal Farm is perhaps the most...

Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The...

Set in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, Victory is a...

When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his...

Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself...

The Scarlet Letter is the story of Hester Prynne, a woman taken in adultery, arraigned by her Puritan community, and abandoned by...

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon, and a second reputation after...

In The Return of the Native Hardy once more treats his favourite theme of the mismatched couple with masterly pathos and...

Hardy’s last novel is the story of a young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. Torn between his...

In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot recreates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her...

The most swiftly-moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is famous for its re-creation of the London...

By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens's magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided,...

Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and...

The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and...

The exhilaration that comes from reading Adam Bede owes its existence to the fact that on every page George Eliot seems absorbed...

Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers –...

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and...

Alone in the great social whirl of New York high society, with little but her wit and beauty to support her, Lily Bart pays the...

Hardy's account of a pure woman betrayed by love is his most powerful and moving novel. Set in the sometimes bleak but always...

An immaculate success on its publication in 1726, Gulliver's Travels has since had an odd double life as both a classic...

Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale of life above and below...

Regarded by many as Hardy's prose masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the tragi-comic story of a woman and three men....

Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War...