Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

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Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah,...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community

Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too...

Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant...

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of...

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction...

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey...

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial...

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of...

The old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that...

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth...

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honore de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations....

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this...

This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the...

Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes...

This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An...

Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects....