An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed...

Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The...

When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz....

In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of...

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

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

In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what...

Contains the Preface to the 1908 Edition

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

As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern...

A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired...

This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous...

"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...

One of Twain’s most celebrated novellas, ‘The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg’ is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story...

Mark Twain’s gloriously funny ‘Diary of Adam and Eve’, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes,...

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...

Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd...

Inspired by Fitzgerald’s own courtship of his future wife Zelda, ‘The Last of the Belles’ centres on the Southern beauty Ailie...

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

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

When Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his...

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

‘Tobermory’ – the title story of this collection – is widely considered one of Saki’s finest pieces, in which a short-sighted...

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

Contains original illustrations by the author

First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of...

In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires...

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

A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying...

Conceived twenty years before its initial publication in 1869, and regarded by its author as his best work, Malinovka Heights...

Dual-Language Edition.
After years of fierce battle, the Emperor Charlemagne's army is finally on the brink of victory over the...