‘… 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...

‘… 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...

Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In...

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination...

'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the...

When the Cuthberts send to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables, their farm in Canada, they are astonished when a...

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

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

The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then...

'…once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life...

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...

'In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked fearful self, so like me my soul seemed to quiver...

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of...

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

Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888,...

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and...

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of...

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany,...

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of...

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky...

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

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