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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...
Three Poets of the First World War
Author: Isaac Rosenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two - Who for his hours of life had...
The Twelve Caesars
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them...
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...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: David Womersley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL...
The Complete English Poems
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion...
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,...
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...
Chronicles
Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
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,...
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Oh, that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes, I would whip...
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...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and...
Medea and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...
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,...
Selected Writings
Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...
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 Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Author: Nguyen Du Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The greatest classic of Vietnamese literature in a stunning new verse translation. This manuscript is ancient, priceless, bamboo-rolled, perfumed...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of...
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...
The Rig Veda
Author: Wendy Doniger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive...
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...
Martin Chuzzlewit
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Charles Dickens's powerful black comedy of of hypocrisy and greed, Martin Chuzzlewit is edited with an introduction and notes...
The Pickwick Papers
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Charles Dickens's first published work, The Pickwick Papers was an instant success that captured the public imagination with its...
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery...
Barnaby Rudge
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 This edition is based on the first one-volume publication of Barnaby Rudge, reproducing all the original illustrations. Appendices include...
David Copperfield
Author: H.K. Browne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is...