Sense and Sensibility is the story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of...

Dual-Language Edition.

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this...

Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives...

Unexpurgated Edition

Simplicius Simplicissimus – the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest...

When Parker Banks moves with his family from London to New York, he struggles to adapt to his new school and environment. His...

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

Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn’t know that. He does know that he’s just moved to...

Dual-Language Edition.
Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes,...

Dual-Language Edition.

Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his...

As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude Morel begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a...

Have you ever looked up into the sky and wondered about space, astronomy and the universe? Perhaps you have. But you've probably...

One of Stevenson’s most famous and enduringly popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious...

Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others...

In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare's plays for children....

Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes...

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of...

Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective...

While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful...

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most...

A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day...

These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of...

While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star...

After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d’Urbervilles, as...

Widely considered one of the greatest American novels, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of Huck Finn and his...

The story of a naughty wooden puppet who has a penchant for lying and dreams of becoming a real boy, The Adventures of Pinocchio...

Pipi isn’t like his four brothers or the other young monkeys living in the forest of Hullabaloo: he has bright-pink fur, a...

This edition contains all the stories originally published under this collection and it's illustrated by David Mackintosh.
From...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing...

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York’s most prominent families – is living the life that has...