The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling...

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...

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

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale...

'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...

None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of Hardy's Wessex,...

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

Bronte... , Бронте...

The perfect gift for any Bronte Sisters lover for only GBP19.99.
Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a...

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of...

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and diplomat John Buchan, who was himself an...

The perfect gift for any Sherlock Holmes fan.
Boxset contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with...

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

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

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

The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including...

The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally...

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