The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in...

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the...

Mill John... , Bentham...

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

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of...

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

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential...

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of...

After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the...

One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose,...

One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the...

This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel...

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

Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate...

Shelley... , Уолпол...

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and...

Henry James's third novel is an exploration of his most powerful, perennial theme - the clash between European and American...

A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting...

Originally published in 1823, The Pioneers is the first of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, and the one that incorporates...

A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts...

Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept...

Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions,...

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace,...

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with...

'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...

Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the 'Seasonal' cycle, following the...

A landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the...

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

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

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

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