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

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse...

With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the...

Celie Rousseau is a talented young artist who, along with her partner Algernon, resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris...

When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus...

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

After a wonderful early life as a young colt on Farmer Gray’s meadows, the stallion Black Beauty is sold to Squire Gordon of...

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the...

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

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

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

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

At the end of an industrious political career in conflic-triven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his...

Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But...

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and...

While spending the summer in the resort of Grand Isle with her husband and children, Edna Pontellier begins a process of...

Regarded as one of the most influential horror stories of all time and the inspiration for countless literary spin-offs, the tale...

Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running...

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told...

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up...

"After a while, with the parrot's help, the Doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them...

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

Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the...

Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was...

While enjoying a six weeks’ stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of...

Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas...

Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home,...

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

Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells...