Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around...

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

Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth...

Having frittered away his family’s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of...

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in...

Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he...

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

"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...

When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin’s boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather...

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

Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fireworks, their parents replace it...

This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance’s greatest figure traces Leonardo’s early development as an artist and...

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

When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness...

Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to...

The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national...

The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy’s ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of...

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

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

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

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

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

Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her...

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, delighting generations of readers with its...

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...

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