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

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
James Joyce's astonishing...

Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is not only a classic science fiction novel, it is also a thrilling adventure yarn....

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

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

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the...

The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. The hopes of Mr Dombey for...

'Surely no man would take up my profession if it were not that danger attracts him.'
In The Casebook, you can read the final...

This title includes an introduction and notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State...

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from...

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels...

This book is edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The...

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in "Dubliners" show us...

There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, .Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition...

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...

"The Best of Sherlock Holmes" is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short...

As Fyodor Karamazov "awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced...

Translated by Constance Garnett.
With an introduction by A. Briggs.

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

Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the service of...

"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...

This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel. Through die Looking-Glass, both...

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These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era...

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Considered by many to be Dickens’ finest novel, Great Expectations traces the...

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Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English...

With an Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.
Wuthering Heights is the wild, passionate story of...

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant...

War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an...