The Penguin English Library edition

When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes,...

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a...

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

'Still as the night was, the mysterious population of the distant moonlit woods was not yet lulled to rest'
The aim of a good...

'I saw him taking a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies all fell off him, and, as they were in the very act of...

'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'

Richard...

Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware...

O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of...

A new Penguin English Library edition of Jane Austen's tantalizing final work - set to be a major Andrew Davies ITV adaptation...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

'My hour is come ... the clock of eternity is...

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'

To...

'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others'

Tod Hackett is a...

'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

Hidden away in the Record Department...

'The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of...

'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...

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in...

'All children, except one, grow up.'

It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the...

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'

The French Terror is raging, and few are safe...

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

'I will not read it; I should never sleep again'

A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong,...

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

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa...

'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'

Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring...

The Penguin English Library edition

Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the...

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...

Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centres on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up...

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 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

'That black figure, with its eyes of fire,...