Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Author: Emily Bronte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time...

Author: Charlotte BrontA" Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 408 Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin. The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to...

Author: Bridget Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 LOSE YOURSELF IN THE MOST EPIC BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'BEAUTIFUL' JOANNA CANNON 'MESMERISING' ERIN KELLY 'TOTALLY ADDICTIVE' JOANNA...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 A fine exclusive edition of one of literature's most beloved stories. Featuring a laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil...

Author: Stella Gibbons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Gibbons' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about three siblings living in a Hampstead Heath cottage 'Don't show proper feelin', does it,...

Author: Thomas Mann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Mann's semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The book that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature Discover Mann's Nobel...

Author: Colette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series- all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and...

Author: Marcel Proust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The definitive translation of the greatest French novel of the twentieth century The definitive translation of one of the...

Author: Boris Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies. 'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 One day in the life of a woman preparing to give a party and a groundbreaking work of twentieth-century...

Author: Victor Hugo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1376 'Still grips the reader with its epic-narrative sweep and all-embracing humanitarianism' Douglas Kennedy, Sunday Times With an introduction by...

Author: Miguel De Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The definitive translation of the world's greatest novel TRANSLATED BY EDITH GROSSMAN Widely regarded as the world's first...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1040 Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son is a darkly witty tale of two siblings' struggle to achieve happiness in the...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Pip doesn't expect much from life . . . His sister makes it clear that her orphaned little brother is nothing...

Author: Louisa May Alcott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four 'little women' enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England. The...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either...

Author: John Tenniel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing...

Author: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A collection of Kafka's greatest stories, including his famous tale of alienation, now in Penguin Black Classics This collection...

Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Charlotte Bronte's first published novel, Jane Eyre was immediately recognised as a work of genius when it appeared in 1847. Part...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Marlow, a ferry-boat captain on foreign assignment in the Congo, searches for the legendary and feared Mr. Kurtz, unprepared...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and...

Author: Miles Franklin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore wish for happiness, homes, and husbands by and by,...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...

Author: Andre Breton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 One of Jane Austen's most profound works, Mansfield Park is a subtle, moving examination of the contrast between superficial...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 Penguin Classics Relaunch When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in...

Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Penguin Classics relaunch After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of...

Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 50th anniversary of Catch 22's publication. Yossarian lives! Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength...

Author: Mary Shelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The rain pattered dismally against the panes,...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be...

Author: Sinclair Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 New to Penguin Classics, Lewis's 1935 bestseller about a demagogue who becomes president of the United States is 'frighteningly...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In the penultimate novel in the series Maigret investigates a crime in Paris's seedy red light district The body...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, this is the masterpiece from the author of Child of All...

Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster 'The poor cannot always reach those...

Author: Miles Franklin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Introduced by Jennifer Byrne This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life...

Author: Roger Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...

Author: Dan Beard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century...

Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...

Author: Jonathan Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose...

Author: Alexander Pushkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In this new translation, Stanley Mitchell captures the cadences and lightness of the original poem, and discusses in his...

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...

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...