After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in...

Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the...

Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as...

Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster,...

Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But...

When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...

A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first...

From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London...

An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows...

An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have...

In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him...

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...

First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career....

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma,...

Zazie has just received a beautiful new notebook, and decides to keep a diary. Brimming with imagination, she writes down her...

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the...

Follows the text of the first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1938. Contains over 20 pages of notes

After travelling...

A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret...

Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother’s sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in...

On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading...

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Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...

In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are...

Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Caucasian struggle against the Russians, defects from...

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the...

Celine’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band...

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

Three years have passed since the events narrated in Little Women, and the four March sisters are approaching adulthood, with all...

After a traumatic early childhood spent living in poverty in a Preston cellar, the suddenly orphaned George Silverman grows up...

The local landowner Van Cheele experiences an unnerving encounter with a youth sunning himself near a pond, and starts to wonder...

Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations,...