Inspired by the life of Woolf's lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is the stunning tale of a 300-year-old poet.

Against the...

Jim was first mate on the Patna, when the ship and passengers were abandoned by the crew in the Red Sea. Accused of cowardice,...

Since its first appearance in 1871-2, Middlemarch has been hailed by successive generations of writers and readers for its...

A woman receives two severed ears in a cardboard box, a government-worker is found dead on the London Underground, and two men go...

Published in 1907, Conrad's compelling tale of anarchy, espionage and violence is set in the seedy back streets of Victorian...

Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of...

Mary Lennox is an unhappy and unloved little girl. After being orphaned, she is sent from India to live at her uncle's gloomy...

This collection brings together the unique stories from H. P. Lovecraft's formative years, ranging from the petrifying 'Dagon'...

'I fail to see', writes suburban bank clerk Charles Pooter '- because I do not happen to be a "Somebody" - why my diary should...

'One might have imagined that the British Empire was in danger. The Standard spoke of me as a menace to English letters; and the...

Most of Lovecraft's tales were standalone and of the short fiction variety, but in the Randolph Carter Tales Lovecraft followed...

Dasent G.... , Tibbits...

Meet gullible trolls, enterprising princesses and nefarious wizards in this treasury of 25 Norse fairy tales.

Collected by...

A classic tale of adventure, action, and scientific achievement.
With the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club are on...

Father Brown is a short and stumpy Catholic Priest with a wit and intellect that belie his physical appearance. Using his...

Fate favours the infant son of John and Alice Clayton when he is found and adopted by a female ape after the death of his...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
The...

Dracula (1897) begins with a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, on his way to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, who is buying...

"…losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse."
Victorian London is...