In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the...

A Tale of Two Cities, a story of revolution, revenge and sacrifice, is one of Charles Dickens' most exciting novels. Set against...

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will...

Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes...

The sequel to Anne of Green Gables, there are lots of new characters to get to know as well as many much loved ones to meet again...

Bleak House is not only a love story and a tightly plotted murder mystery, but also a condemnation of the corruption at the heart...

Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder - but it...

Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. This classic of French...

With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first...

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Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?'

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Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and...

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

In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Charles Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in...

Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque...

First published in 1914, Dubliners depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes...

Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and...

Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the...

Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but...

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

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

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Happy Hour is a gorgeous gift book of classic poetry which fizzes with poetry about all kinds of drink, drinkers and drinking...

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

Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell...

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

This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of If Only They Could Talk features an afterword by Yorkshire Shepherdess...

A joyous Amazon adventure set in the lush nature of Brazil, Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea is a modern classic loved by...

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...

In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't...

In La Vita Nuova, Italy's greatest poet recounts the famous story of his passionate love for Beatrice. The drama of their...

Les Miserables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive set amidst the poverty stricken...