The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in...

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

The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the...

In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the...

Giambattista Basile was a seventeenth-century Italian poet whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of...

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

Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each...

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

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

The poems of Emily Jane Brontл are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural...

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and...

Two sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon,...

Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work...

Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the...

Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive...

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within a...

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid...

E.M. Forster's Where Angels Fear to Tread is amongst the greatest twentieth-century literary explorations of vice, virtue and the...

The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent...

The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential...

With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early...

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel,...

By the 20th century, the centuries-old Roman Catholic exorcism ritual for combatting demonic possession was all but dead,...

Antonio, a Venetian merchant, wishes to help his friend get money to impress a rich heiress. But he is forced to borrow the sum...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The...

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

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his...

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...