The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine...

In Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses the most notorious murder in classical history to tell a tragic tale of friendship,...

George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England...

Mark Twain’s first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, is a classic adventure of mistaken identity that champions social...

A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning and much-loved Eva Ibbotson, A Glove Shop in Vienna will...

One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes...

Bringing together all Charles Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several longer tales. Here are chilling...

Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest...

Complete and unabridged.

Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its...

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, swashbuckling novel about a young boy who is forced to go to sea and who is then caught up in...

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective....

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent...

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that.
Part of the Macmillan...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved...

The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial...

Why has the mild mannered Dr Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr Hyde? And why are they never seen...

Faithfully supported by his chronicler, Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes pits his wits against 'Napoleon of Crime' Professor Moriarty,...

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."
After crash-landing in the...