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Has any other filmmaker become so famous that he has also become an adjective? A collection of brand new stories directly inspired by the master of suspense. The Sunday Times...

'We are such stuff asdreams are made on...' While the language of William Shakespeare's plays can makethem challenging for some readers, their plots are filled with fantastical,almost fairytale-like plot devices...

" The Widow of Rose House is close to perfection and any lover of historical romance will adore this debut." - Smart Bitches Trashy Books It's 1875, and Alva Webster...

Wells was at his best as a short story writer, opening up new hoizons and other worlds through a remarkable mixture of imagination and compassion.

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia. A 23 year old law student commits suicide in broad daylight...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider's claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse...

Since its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray , has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral...

The first truly critical edition of Hardy's most controversial novel, presenting a "clean" text in which Hardy's own light punctuation is restored.

One night Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the world in just eighty days and the very next day sets out from the port of Dover...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library \"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I...

Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series...

Pip doesn't expect much from life...His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change. Pip's narrow...

To Paul Dombey, business is everything and money can do anything. He runs his family life as he runs his firm: coldly, calculatingly and commercially. The only person he cares...

New Penguin Essentials edition of the heartbreaking classic of the roaring twenties. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was a bright cold...

John Malkovich stars as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's ingenious serial-killer thriller, newly adapted for BBC Television in 2018 by the award-winning team behind And Then There Were None, Witness...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oh! Mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my...

The lost final novel by the master of the epic swashbuckling adventure stories: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The last cavalier is Count de Sainte-Hermine, Hector,...

A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with fangs for fans of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor and Stella Gibbons. 'Literary comfort and...

About this book: Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or...

1937. Having lost the Civil War in Spain, four republican soldiers lead a fugitive existence deep in the Cantabrian mountains. They are on the run, skirmishing with Franco's soldiers, knowing...

When Hitler launches an invasion of the Netherlands, Karel is almost killed in an air raid and falls in love for the first time, with a Jewish girl. But the...

Hans, an esteemed surgeon, has just returned from the hellish battlefields of the First World War. But everything in his home feels alien - even his wife Grete. As he...

The original vision of Grimms' tales in English for the first time When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume...

The American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small-town gas...

No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from...

Puffin in Bloom- an all new line of classics, gorgeously illustrated by renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.'s lead artist, Anna Bond. Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters...

Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the...

Dickens' experimental and thrilling short stories This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with...

'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY...

Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake... In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an...

A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only...

True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia's most famous outlaw. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate...

We did not know, when we started from home in Venice, on the 8th of November, 1864, that we had taken the longest road to Rome. We thought that of...

A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time 'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been...

Penguin Classics relaunch THE DIARY OF A NOBODY began as a serial in Punch and the book which followed in 1892 has never been out of print. The Grossmith brothers...

Clarissa is one of the grand masterpieces of European literature Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing...

THE CLASSIC NOVEL WHICH INSPIRED THE MAJOR ITV SERIES FROM THE MAKERS OF POLDARK AND VICTORIA 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a...

The book titled Gulliver's Travels by the author Jonathan Swift. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From the twentieth century's first great practitioner of the novel of ideas comes a consummate masterpiece of science fiction about a man trapped in the terror of his own creation....

A revised edition of Dickens's best-loved and most frequently quoted novel This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts...

In addition to the two major texts by Lewis Carroll, this volume includes Tenniell's original illustrations and, as an appendix, the recently discovered suppressed chapter of Alice in Wonderland, The...

A dramatic departure for the #1 bestseller. A gripping story of rivalry and ambition, loyalty and love set in the heart of Elizabethan England. 'With all the vivid history that...

The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders , Wasteland , Here We Are and Mothering Sunday In the aftermath of the Second World...

A special edition from Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Featuring beautiful heritage wallpaper patterns from Jane...