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...

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...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.
Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most...

The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches...

Richard Hannay finds a corpse in his flat, and becomes involved in a plot by spies to precipitate war and subvert British naval...

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

Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York.
This novel, based on George Eliot's own...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele.
Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne...

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

Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles...

Her name is Stephen. She's an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar.

Stephen grows...

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

Editedand with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most...

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

The flaxen-haired beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. But M.E. Braddon's classic novel of...

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

The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his...

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Andrew Frayn, Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier...

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...

At the end of the nineteenth century a stranger arrives in the Sussex countryside and mayhem ensues; in the sleepy county of Kent...

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...