Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith.

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends...

'Facts alone are wanted in life'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and...

The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But...

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house....

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of...

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead....

'Wickedly good' John Updike

In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram...

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules...

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by...

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the...

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life-...

The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous...

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the...

Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more,...

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in...

‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years...

Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to...

'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, Guardian

Have you ever wondered...

How thin is the line between good and evil?

Discover the classic tale of gothic horror

Dr Jekyll has been experimenting...

‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’

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Discover the classic tale behind the hit film and one of the most beloved, comforting, charming stories of all time.

Life in...

'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting...