Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare’s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love,...

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet...

‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as...

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear...

Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales.
This collection of over forty of Andersen's most...

‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as...

‘White Nights’ is one of Dostoevsky’s earlier short stories but one of his most enduringly popular. It tells the story of four...

Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It...

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the “roaring...

One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal...

One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal...

Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety...

When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious...

The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks...

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us...

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English...

Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home...

The perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover. Box set contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen’s...

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty...

Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are...

Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in...

Shelley's short, prolific life produced some of the most memorable and well-known lyrics of the Romantic period. But he was also...

This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed...

'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her...

'I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet'.
With its strange,...

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In...

'What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth' So wrote the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) in 1817. This collection...

Wilde, glamorous and notorius, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy...