After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d’Urbervilles, as...

Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and...

Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material.
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As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude Morel begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a...

The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr...

When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him,...

An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancee for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her...

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce was the author of sardonic, mischievous definitions of words that...

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that...

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of...

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of...

Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society ? obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification ?...

A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding...

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Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...

Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster,...

Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But...

An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is...

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and...

A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701,...

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends...

Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time,...

The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the...

When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus...

When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it...

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the...

When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved,...

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the...

In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are...

The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live...