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Daisy Miller and Other Tales
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Brought together here with further tales of cultural conflict, these stories are subtle, affecting variations on the 'international theme'...
The Europeans
Author: Henry James
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 224
one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A chilling new collection of Henry James's short stories exploring the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. 'There had been...
The Wings of the Dove
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her...
The Golden Bowl
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'You think . . . that I had better get married just in order to be as I was...
The Ambassadors
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's...
Daisy Miller
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with...
Washington Square
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes...
The Turn of the Screw
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at...
The Portrait of a Lady
Author: Henry James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading,...
The Damned
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...
Notre-Dame de Paris
Author: Victor Hugo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, Notre-Dame...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Author: Hogg, James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A new edition of Hogg's haunting tale of a devilish doppleganger, edited and introduced by Hogg's celebrated biographer Karl Miller.Brought...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Penguin Classics relaunch. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five...
Desperate Remedies
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...
Jude the Obscure
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with...
Far from the Madding Crowd
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's first major literary success, and it edited with an introduction and...
The Woodlanders
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the...
King Solomon's Mines
Author: H. Rider Haggard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at...
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Author: Luo Guanzhong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of...
Dead Souls
Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in...
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories
Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his...
Gothic Tales
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local...
Wives and Daughters
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful,...
Sylvia's Lovers
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where...
North and South
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love...
Aspects of the Novel
Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at...
The Longest Journey
Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary...
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino,...
Parade's End
Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Ford's great masterpiece set in the First World War, now in Penguin Black Classics with an introduction by...
The Good Soldier
Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by...
On Tangled Paths
Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love,...
Effi Briest
Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her...
Three Tales
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...
Sentimental Education
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the...
The History of Tom Jones
Author: Henry Fielding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in...
Parzival
Author: Wolfram Eschenbach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left...
Silas Marner
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver...
Romola
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years...
Felix Holt: The Radical
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the...
Daniel Deronda
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She...
Adam Bede
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival,...
The Black Tulip
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that...
The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 'D'Artagnan lunged at him with such a furious thrust that, if he had not made a quick leap backwards,...
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has...
Pictures from Italy
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the Penguin...
Our Mutual Friend
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Charles Dickens's last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend is a glorious satire spanning all levels of Victorian society, edited...