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The Chimes
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes...
The Time Machine
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a...
Hop-Frog
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Edgar Allen Poe's short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of...
A Dog's Heart
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray...
The Rich Boy
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . . . In this glittering...
Kings In Grass Castles
'The best saga of pastoral Australia ever published... hard to describe without superlatives... in a hundred years the book will still be a classic.' Meanjin '... far better than any...
And Then There Were None: The Ultimate Mystery Edition
Solving the world's most puzzling mystery novel just got even more fiendish in this gorgeous new hardback collector's edition - with the final solution sealed in an envelope at the...
The Shock of the Fall
A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER...
Dickens' Women
In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivalled portraits of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these girls and women speak to us today, making...
Tom Sawyer Abroad & Tom Sawyer, Detective
With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson. Following on from 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' (1876) and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884-5) 'Tom Sawyer Abroad' (1894) became one of...
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The comprehensive, selected, most popular tales accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms...
Herzog
A multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, moaner and charmer.
The Man in the Moon
Are all aspiring stand-up comics as tragic as Baby Reindeer? If William is anything to go by, the answer is possibly 'yes'. Nostalgic, razor-sharp and deliciously peculiar, this is a...
Our Mutual Friend
'Our Mutual Friend', Dickens' last complete novel, gives one of his most comprehensive and penetrating accounts of Victorian society. Its vision of a culture stifled by materialistic values emerges not...
Kipps and The History of Mr Polly
These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited...
Rancid Pansies
The hero of this black farce of a book is Gerald Samper, camp as Christmas and a man with his mind on higher things than he has yet managed to...
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Book 3)
Darkness Will Bind Them... watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video Begin your journey into Middle-earth. A New Legend Begins on Prime...
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book 2)
Begin your journey into Middle-earth. Darkness Will Bind Them... watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video The second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's...
The Scarlet Letter (Collins Classics)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ' Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always...
Gulliver's Travels (Collins Classics)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious...
Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to...
The Jungle Book (Collins Classics)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The man's cub is mine, Lungri - mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
One of the greatest love stories ever told, beautifully repackaged for a modern teen audience Loved TWILIGHT? Then you'll adore Tess of the d'Urbervilles... Tess is a good woman. But...
The Professor
'The Professor' is Charlotte Bronte's first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe...
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. "This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed with musty spices. Sit comfortably by this good light, that you...
Trilby
"You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!" First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby OFerrall and her mesmeric mentor, Svengali, has...
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
Conrad's first novel is also the first part of his Malayan trilogy. Set in Borneo against an exotic and ruinous background, the book enacts the final, tragi-comic anguish of paternity...
The Angelic Avengers
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either...
The Woman in Black
Published to tie-in with major new film adaptation starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole inhabitant...
PS, I Love You
Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood...
Persuasion (Collins Classics)
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural...
Christmas Classic: Old Christmas (Illustrated)
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A nice edition with 100 illustrations from a 1876 edition. Old Christmas was published in book form in 1876. It contains the five Christmas stories in Irving's Sketch Book, where...
The Quick and the Dead: A queer historical fantasy of thieves, secrets
It matters not who you are born to but where you are made. It is 1597 and Kit Skevy and Mariner Elgin have just robbed the wrong grave. 'Vividly told,...
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, Sussex University. During his tragically short life, Stephen Crane gained fame as a vividly distinctive writer. His...
Fathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's finest work. It is a political novel set in a domestic...
The Return of the Native
'The Return of the Native' is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out...
The Diary of a Nobody
'The Diary of a Nobody' is based on a series of amusing columns written between 1888-9 for Punch, and published as a novel in 1892 with illustrations by Weedon. The...
Selected Short Stories: Includes the novel 'The Rover'
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Chosen and Introduced by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury and Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. This specially commissioned selection of Conrad's short stories...
The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner
In the early years of the 18th century, Scotland is torn by religious and political strife. Hogg's sinner, justified by his Calvinist conviction that his own salvation is pre-ordained, is...
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret...
Treasure Island
'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!' Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds...
Les Miserables Volume Two
One of the great Classics of Western Literature, 'Les Miserables' is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description. Characters such as the absurdly...
The Last of the Mohicans
It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Including Glinda of Oz
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she...
Kipps and The History of Mr Polly
These comic novels will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped by circumstance. Their central characters, Artie Kipps and Alfred Polly, are prisoners of their modest social class, limited...