Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent...

Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

'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...

Pushkin... , Афанасьев...

'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'
In these tales, young women...

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

'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,...

"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two...