Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine...

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,...

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

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

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...

By the time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had completed the twelve stories for The Strand magazine that are gathered together in The...

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...

'Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes' - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur...

Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the...

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

Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a...

Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities....

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,...

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has...

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In...

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky...

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring...

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination...

Treasure Island is the seminal pirates and buried treasure novel, which is so brilliantly concocted that it appeals to readers...

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess...

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the...

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat,...