Described by F. R. Leavis as one of the two most brilliant novels in the language, The Portrait of a Lady marks the evolution of...

An immaculate success on its publication in 1726, Gulliver's Travels has since had an odd double life as both a classic...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871–2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest...

"Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting ....