The first book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles is a moving, insightful exploration of moral dilemmas fought in public...

An adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo.

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

Arthur Conan Doyle leaves Baker Street far behind in this ripping yarn about a undiscovered land where dinosaurs and ape-men...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses!

From the grandpere of science fiction - a perilous and...

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith.

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of...

Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she...

‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this...

'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling

Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very...

Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to...

'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, Guardian

Have you ever wondered...

How thin is the line between good and evil?

Discover the classic tale of gothic horror

Dr Jekyll has been experimenting...

‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’

Discover the...

Discover the classic tale behind the hit film and one of the most beloved, comforting, charming stories of all time.

Life in...

'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting...

'Gaskell's shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty' Sunday Telegraph

Mary...

'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood...

'Who can think of a pirate without conjuring up the image of Long John Silver?' Daily Mail

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a...

'One of the greatest allegories in all literature' D.H. Lawrence

Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an...

'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent

Eight years ago Anne Elliot...

Discover the classic story behind the major new film

'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early...

'The perfect novel' Kate Atkinson, #1 bestselling author of Big Sky

Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken,...

Winner of the Booker Prize

The perfect gift for Valentine’s Day
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark...