This 20th century masterpiece uses the traditional form of autobiography to explore some very untraditional themes. Under the...

Two of D. H. Lawrence's most renowned novels - now with new packages and new introductions

Widely regarded as D. H....

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'
After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of...

Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful, gossiping...

Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this Penguin...

E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the...

From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet...

What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English...

During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of...

The first romantic historical novel and international bestseller, Waverley (1814) tells the story of Edward Waverley, a naive,...

Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and...

Ward No. 6 and Other Stories 1892-1895 collects stories which show Anton Chekhov beginning to confront complex, ambiguous and...

Tolstoy's magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur

War and Peace...

Villette is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel of one woman's search for true love, edited with an introduction...

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

William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair depicts the anarchic anti-heroine Beky Sharpe cutting a swathe through the eligible...

In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order...

Mill John... , Bentham...

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of...

Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with a new introduction by Ramachandra...

'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence...

The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its...

Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and...

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological...

The unlikely heroes of the Spanish picaresque novels make their way - by whatever means they can - through a colourful and seamy...

In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his...

Combining thrilling adventure with scientific facts and a wonder at the natural world, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is...

'If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it'

Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck,...

Inspired by Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's play explores heroism, love and betrayal against the...

'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...'
In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel...

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