Classics

A pilot, forced to land in the desert, meets a small boy—a young prince—who tells him a strange tale about a tiny planet ...

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heat ...

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Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the acad ...

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman ...

In this thrilling adventure tale by the 'Father of Science Fiction', three men embark on an epic journey under the sea w ...

During one hot summer on Long Island, Jay Gatsby throws an amazing party every weekend. He is an extremely wealthy man, ...

An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I d put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20t ...

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with ...

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior mono ...

Join Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell, and a cast of other familiar characters on a fantastical journey in the Word Cloud Class ...

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, howev ...

`The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,` a collection of twelve short stories by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle, is cons ...

Jules Verne s classic, a bestseller for over a century, has never appeared in a critical edition before. William Butcher ...

Emma is considered by many to be Austen s finest and most representative novel. The story of Emma Woodhouse s matchmakin ...

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining play by Milan Kundera, the acclaimed Franco-Czech author ...

Kipling portrays school as the first stage of a much larger game, a pattern-maker for the experiences of life. Implied ...

A wise and beautiful fairytale for grown-ups, considered one of the greatest novels in the Irish comic tradition.

With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm wit ...

Oversized mini book packed with witty summaries of the plays of William Shakespeare, a man widely regarded as one of the ...

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert ...

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that ...

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

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction and Notes by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, Uni ...

An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 ...

A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman ...

Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of t ...

When "Lord Jim" first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an e ...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan. Lawrence s finest, most mature novel initially met w ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social s ...

The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegi ...

An historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent time of Monmouth's rebellion ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Transplanted to Europ ...

Taking its autobiographical inspiration from D.H. Lawrence's experience of growing up in a coal-mining town, "Sons and L ...