The Fall of the House of Usher is a gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of madness, isolation, and decay....

The Nutcracker is a classic fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl named Maria who receives a magical nutcracker doll on...

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare’s tragedies. This is an intense drama of love,...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of...

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet...

Anne of Avonlea continues Anne’s story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher...

‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as...

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear...

Through the Looking-Glass the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, containing the famous illustrations by Sir John...

Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most...

James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in...

Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, but also the most fascinatingly problematical tragedy in world...

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart…”

Crime and Punishment is one of the...

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy’s Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel...

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman,...

'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the...

'...man is not truly one, but truly two.'

In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart...

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The...

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every...

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its...

Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary...

Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and...

'…once again Mr Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complex life...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in...

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us...

‘Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.’

In The Casebook, you can read the final...

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their...

Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible....

What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of...

Northanger Abbey tells the story of a young girl, Catherine Morland who leaves her sheltered, rural home to enter the busy,...