From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.

'What...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's...

It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius...

Described as 'a masterpiece' by Stefan Zweig, this extraordinary novel of love, war, ghosts and memory features an introduction...

D.H. Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten stories shows the variety...

Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds....

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

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

A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane.

Charming,...

A classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary...

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science...

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms

One of the great English popular art...

Diogenes, Julian

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics

From their founding in the fifth century...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...

The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director...

'One of my life's greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers - I can't go back and read it for the first time'...

'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,...