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...

'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'

'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit...

'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...

'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea...

'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...

Jane Eyre is the inspiring heroine of one of the best-loved British novels of all time.

As an orphan, Jane's childhood is not...

'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

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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,...

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful...

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

With an introduction by Richard...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she...

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where...

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar,...

A witty, elegant novel about looking, seeing, thinking, knowing and understanding

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann

Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a...

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall...

The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside.

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in...

'A major work of art' Time

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and...

'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' - Sunday Times

With an...

An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition

For years Kazu has run...

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
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Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of...

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his...