Coriolanus, a famed warrior turned politician, is driven from Rome as a traitor when he arrogantly speaks out against popular...

A masterpiece of autobiography, and perhaps the first literary memoir of an addict, the Penguin Classics edition of Thomas De...

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

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.

They call...

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....

The Autobiographies of Charles Darwin (1809-82) provide a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the world's intellectual...

'All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players'­

Rosalind, banished by her cruel uncle, travels secretly...

A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an...

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was the most famous man of his day to make the journey, and embarked on his...

A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud...

'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...

The writings of one of the great woman adventurers of the twentieth century - the 'female Lawrence of Arabia' - and the subject...

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To...

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

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

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...

Andersen... , Carroll...

'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token...

Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this collection, is concerned with his complex, often contradictory...

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...

This is the essential one-volume edition of Tales from 1,001 Nights, drawn from the acclaimed landmark translation published in 3...

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

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