Fifteen exquisite tales from one of the world'd greatest writers of the short story

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and...

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years...

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to...

George Eliot's nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connected lives, changing fortunes and human frailties in a...

Lewis Carroll's anarchic, disturbing and boisterously funny Alice stories, conjured
up one afternoon to entertain a young girl,...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about...

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

The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder...

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a...

Anne Bronte's first novel is the compelling autobiographical tale of a young woman desperately seeking a place in the...

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything...

'His characters are marvellous, his insights wonderful ... You don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better' Ruth...

Grossmith... , Grossmith...

Channelling a razor-sharp satire through the everyday mishaps of the immortal comic character Mr Pooter, George and Weedon...

Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new...

Pushkin... , Bazhov...

'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'
In these tales, young women...

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and...

Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with...

Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist...

Nickerson... , Chase Owen

The gripping first-hand story of the disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and is the basis for a major new feature film,...

Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and...

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories collects some of Jack London's most profound and moving allegorical tales....

Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succes de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled...

'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens's story of...

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental...

This Penguin Classics edition of Louisa May Alcott's inspiring tale of sisterhood, Little Women, is edited with an introduction...

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

One of the most extraordinary literary works of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned in England and the...

'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's...

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