A play ought to be written in which people should come and go, dine, talk of the weather or play cards... because that is what...

It is 1840 in a fictional town called Cranford and change is in the air. The Industrial Revolution is just around the corner and...

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

Is anyone incorruptible? The inhabitants of Sulaco (a port in the fictional South American state of Costaguana) believe that head...

In this stunning tale of self-discovery and female emancipation, the young woman Edna Pontellier works to regain control over her...

On the bleak streets of Dublin, a young boy grieves over the death of an irreligious priest, a woman elopes with her lover, and a...

The Professor was Charlotte Bronte's first novel, completed as early as 1846. The central character is the reserved William...

A new edition to the Arcturus classic fiction line, Bleak House is arguably Dickens' most accomplished novel, blending an...

Edith Whartons novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. Mattie Silver, a young and guileless girl, is...

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

At first glance, Nora Helmer appears to live the perfect life. She is married to the ambitious banker Torvald and is well...

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...

In the sordid streets of 17th century London, its sink or swim, and Moll Flanders is struggling to stay afloat.

Born in...

Everyone looks upon shy, self-effacing Fanny Price as the poor relation among her four spoiled cousins at Mansfield...

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

Returning home from the University of St. Petersburg, Arkady Kirsanov discovers that, while he has changed, the world he left...

Self-taught young stonemason Jude Fawley yearns to attend the university of Christminster, but his dreams are thwarted when he is...

The story of David Copperfield (1850) began as a memoir of Dickens' boyhood experiences in a blacking factory and grew into one...

Grossmith... , Grossmith...

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

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness - I am nothing. - Virginia Woolf

First...

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.

In...

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

In one of the earliest works of science fiction, H. G. Wells brings to life the joys of space travel and humanity's boundless...

In a drunken stupor, protagonist Michael Henchard mistakenly sells his wife and child to a sailor. Eighteen years later, secrets...

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

Father Brown appears to be a clumsy and naive man but this unimpressive exterior hides a razor sharp mind. His great intellect...

In HG Wells's disturbing evolutionary tale, Edward Prendrick is the shipwrecked naturalist who finds himself stranded on the...