'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find...

And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too...

'It's you who are the dogs...'
What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued...

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and...

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing...

'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'....

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

'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...

Marx Karl, Engels...

Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories...

'... ever-present, phantom thing;
My slave, my comrade, and my king'
Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary...

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is...

'...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other' A disgusting account of a school of giant...

The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the...

Collecting three lesser-known works by one of the nineteenth century's greatest authors, Jane Austen's Lady Susan, The Watsons...

Twenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of...

Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition....

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and...

'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master...

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early...

Mark Twain's witty, satirical tale of childhood rebellion against hypocritical adult authority, the Penguin Classics edition of...

With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles...

A dark classic of Russia's silver age, this blackly funny novel recounts a schoolteacher's descent into sadism, arson and...

Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well-loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes by...

Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris....

Jane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few...

George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction...

The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and remains one of Sherlock Holmes's greatest and most...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy,...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...