“Wind, Sand and Stars” is a lyrical memoir by French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, blending adventure, reflection,...

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of...

‘… 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...

With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out ‘to draw life as it really was’ in the lonely villages and desolate...

'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the...

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...

Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an...

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer...

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it.
But when...

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

'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest - Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps,...

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...

The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her...

Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cattermole, with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of...

The Aeneid is Virgil's Masterpiece. His epic poem recounts the story of Rome's legendary origins from the ashes of Troy and...

George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who...

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany,...

In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself...

Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It...

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...

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...

A Room of One's Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf's best known work; The Voyage Out...

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