‘… 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...

‘White Nights’ is one of Dostoevsky’s earlier short stories but one of his most enduringly popular. It tells the story of four...

One of the great Classics of Western Literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal...

One of the great classics of western literature, Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal...

The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a...

Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home...

The perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover. Box set contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen’s...

This volume brings together Virginia Woolf's last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed...

'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her...

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy...

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.
Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne...

The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her...

Finnegans Wake is the book of Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family - their book, but in a curious way...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The Winter's Tale, one...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex.
The Wordsworth...

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the...

Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and...

With an Introduction by Alex Dolby. Translation by W.H.G. Kingston. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William...

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

'All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's'.
Saki (H.H....

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its...

Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
James Joyce's astonishing...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing...

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from...

This book is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The...

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

There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, .Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition...