The deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime, but a mole in Moriarty's...

'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am...

' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but...

'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day'

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa...

As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best - but there are many stories here which would...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot

"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her,...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

'"She was a brazen hussy."
"She wasn't. - And she...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy

'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet...

'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it.'
A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan...