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

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

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

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Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a...

When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert apply to an orphanage for a boy to help on their farm, Green Gables, they are astonished when a...

Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent...

In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and...

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

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

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a...

Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.
This is a...

Although the shortest of George Eliot's novels, Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works. It tells the sad story...

In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to...

Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells...

Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its...

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

With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse. Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which...

'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was...

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury...

Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme...

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

This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to...

"To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf novels. It is based on her own early experiences, and while it...

Virginia Woolf's Orlando, "the longest and most charming love letter in literature," playfully constructs the figure of Orlando...

Jules Verne (1828-1905) possessed that rare storyteller`s gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright...

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title,...

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

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself,...

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

With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham.
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a...