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...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and...

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

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate...

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...

'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole . . . without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis...

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...

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the...

Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the effects of poverty...

'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...

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

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others.

The...

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

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster

This edition is the original 1818 text, which...

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

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

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

'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you...

An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of...

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

Young King Henry wages war on France. Tainted by his family's past crimes and with enemies among his own men, he must face the...

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...

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers
Written midway between Brave New World and...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped is at once a rollicking adventure story and an earnest political allegory. This Penguin...

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