Returning home from the University of St. Petersburg, Arkady Kirsanov discovers that, while he has changed, the world he left...

The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's humorous narrative of his own travels across Europe. It began life as a series of newspaper...

‘The dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed, repressed) wish.’

In this fascinating work by one of the pioneers...

'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.'

Written between 1591 and 1595,...

The sixth book about the red-headed heroine Anne Shirley. Anne is a mother of five, with another child on the way. As she was...

Cosy up for a festive reading bonanza with these heart-warming seasonal tales of Christmas by Charles Dickens. As well as the...

Grossmith... , Grossmith...

'I fail to see', writes suburban bank clerk Charles Pooter '- because I do not happen to be a "Somebody" - why my diary should...

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.

In...

'We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be...

On a moonlit night in north London, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white and...

One sunny spring day, Mole decides to visit the river bank. There he meets and soon becomes firm friends with Ratty, Badger, and...

'Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and...

A Room of One's Own is the one of the most prolific and pertinent feminist essays of the 20th century. First published on 24...

'One might have imagined that the British Empire was in danger. The Standard spoke of me as a menace to English letters; and the...

When Marilla and Matthew decide to adopt a boy from an orphanage they are not sure what to expect. But it's certainly not the...

When Marilla and Matthew decide to adopt a boy from an orphanage they are not sure what to expect. But it's certainly not the...

The magnificent attitude of not giving a damn ... and to seek the moment's happiness as fervently and persistently as possible....

In one of the earliest works of science fiction, H. G. Wells brings to life the joys of space travel and humanity's boundless...

In a drunken stupor, protagonist Michael Henchard mistakenly sells his wife and child to a sailor. Eighteen years later, secrets...

In the midst of the exploding shells and flying bullets of World War I, soldiers took pen to paper to record their terrifying...

Most of Lovecraft's tales were standalone and of the short fiction variety, but in the Randolph Carter Tales Lovecraft followed...

'Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends...

Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, originally published in 1920, captures the feel of its era and explores themes such as the quest...

A young governess is employed to look after two enchantingly beautiful orphans.
Striving to protect the children, she becomes...

After his centuries-long slumber, the once insomniac Graham awakes into the nightmarish and unrecognizable London of 2100,...

Father Brown appears to be a clumsy and naive man but this unimpressive exterior hides a razor sharp mind. His great intellect...

In HG Wells's disturbing evolutionary tale, Edward Prendrick is the shipwrecked naturalist who finds himself stranded on the...

A collection of poetic reflections on life and death. Ranging from musings on youth and age, and elegies on bereavement and grief...

Lewis Carroll was one of the masters of nonsense verse. His poems ranged from absurdities to satire and have been loved by...

Anton Chekhov was one of Russian literature's greatest short story writers. This collection brings together twenty-five of his...