Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is an...

Contains the Preface to the 1908 Edition

Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel...

"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of...

Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep...

Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust...

When the corpse of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the grounds of his Dartmoor estate next to a mysterious animal footprint,...

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

When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the great detective...

A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the...

On his return to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant surgeon, Doctor Watson is looking for a...

After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island....

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

Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is...

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

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

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

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

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

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

Dark forces are at work in the House of the Double Axe. Stephan, the thirteen-year-old son of King Minos of Crete, stumbles...

The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr...

Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his...

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce was the author of sardonic, mischievous definitions of words that...

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of...

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of...

When Maya and her family move to the countryside, strange things start to happen at night. Who is it that keeps tidying the house...

An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is...

When the adventurer Allan Quatermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry’s missing brother,...

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and...