With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the novel with which...

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally...

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

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a...

Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine...

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...

This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious...

John Bunyan was variously a tinker, soldier, Baptist minister, prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached...

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the...

With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate...

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale...

'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the...

In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and...

Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen...

Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million...

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...

Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment...

‘Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!’ Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps,...

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when...

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...

The Little Prince is a classic tale of equal appeal to children and adults. On one level it is the story of an airman's...

By the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had completed the twelve stories for The Strand magazine that are gathered together in The...

'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur...

Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the...

Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the...

None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex,...

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