Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but...

Theocritus, Virgil

Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily,...

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

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the...

Browning... , Browning...

Celebrated in their time and still popular over a century after their deaths, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett had a unique...

Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of...

Originally published as a serial in the children's monthly magazine St Nicholas, Little Lord Fauntleroy was Frances Hodgson...

First published as a serial in Young Folks between May and July 1886 and now reprinted in an Everyman edition on the centenary of...

Described on the title-page of the first edition as 'the autobiography of her horse, translated from the original equine', Black...

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a map showing the way to...

Barrie's classic tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up. It started life as a series of stories made up for the five Llewelyn...

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales originally appeared in batches each Christmas in the mid-19th century, and Spink's English...

Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg. Pinocchio, an endearing scamp, is always...

‘Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a...

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel...

It is the autobiography of Giorgio Bassani, told in a time span of around 15 years, a time where the ambiguous and mysterious...

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a...

We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the...

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as...

The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece,...

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once...

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to 'The Captain's...

There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a...

Hardy described the theme of The Woodlanders as 'the immortal puzzle -given the man and woman, how to find a basis for their...

Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, written when the author was twenty-four, appeared in 1920 and immediately established him as a...

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

An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the...

The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a...

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...