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

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...

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

The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in Anthony...

'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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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

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...

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