Now a classic feminist text, Jane Eyre was the first of Charlotte Bronte’s novels to be published, in 1847. Like her sister...

Hardy’s last novel is the story of a young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. Torn between his...

Amis’s powers of comic invention are formidable in this dark tale of disaster, sex, love, murder - and darts.

Set in a...

There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a...

An unjustly neglected classic, this sweeping 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably 'the great Danish novel' – but is...

The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author's other...

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

The Ottoman Sultan has commissioned the best artists in the land to create a book celebrating the glories of his realm: but he...

Conrad’s foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest...

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century...

The most swiftly-moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is famous for its re-creation of the London...

In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, we witness the birth of a nation as it...

A comprehensive selection of the poet’s work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her...

A dazzling collection of early stories and later fragments which throw an entirely new light on Jane Austen. In particular, they...

Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and...

Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and...

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and...

When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his...

Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of...

Published in 1913, Lawrence’s closely autobiographical first major novel is set in the coal-mining villages where he spent his...

Hardy's account of a pure woman betrayed by love is his most powerful and moving novel. Set in the sometimes bleak but always...

The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a...

Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry...

This complex tale of self-discovery - considered by the author to be his best work - traces the path of an aging idealist,...

Written over two thousand years ago, The Art of War contains penetrating insights into the nature of power, inter-state rivalry,...

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a...

The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a...

In this remarkable trilogy, Richard Ford creates one of the most enduring and empathetic characters in contemporary American...

Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself...

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to 'The Captain's...