Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is the perfect addition to any bookshelf....

Author: Carlo Collodi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio is the perfect addition to any bookshelf. When Geppetto...

Author: P.G. WodehouseFormat:  3 Volume set of shrink-wrapped paperback books Description: Pelham Grenville Wodehouse always known as 'Plum' wrote about 70 novels and some 300 short stories over 73 years and...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The man's cub is mine, Lungri - mine...

Author: Patrick Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of...

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting...

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: Herman Melville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'I love Melville' Donna Tartt'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' 'It was the best of times, it...

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: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century- the controversial story of Humbert Humbert...

Author: P.G. Wodehouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic Jeeves and Wooster novel from P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century _________________________________________ 'If...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the age of forty-one, Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) underwent a profound spiritual crisis, from which he emerged believing that...

Author: Thomas Mann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on...

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: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Paradise Lost was the first literary work in English written on a planetary scale... In sublimity and magnitude, it...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Notes from Underground establishing Dostoevsky's reputation as the most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality Virginia...

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: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 274 Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream...

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: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first ever graphic novel treatment of Orwell's seminal fable, now in paperback When the downtrodden animals of Manor...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the...

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: Jonathan Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Swift's brilliant and satirical classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by...

Author: George Orwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Orwell's masterwork in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition for the first time Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling...

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: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by...

Author: Mark Twain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the...

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: Nevil Shute Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Probably more people have shed tears over the last page of A Town Like Alice than about any other...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to Ithaca,...

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: Apuleius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This bawdy novel from Ancient Rome is given new significance by renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer. Peter Singer has breathed...

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: D.H. Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A landmark D. H. Lawrence novel, considered to be among the best writing about Australia After the Great War,...

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 Elizabeth Gaskell's compassionate, richly dramatic novel features one of the most original and fully-rounded female characters in Victorian fiction,...

Author: Ralph Ellison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Published after Ellison's death, his follow-up to Invisible Man is a thunderous epic of memory, faith, loss and identity....

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died...

Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 As influential as Martin Amis's MONEY and Oliver Stone's film WALL STREET, this is an exhilarating satire of Eighties...

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...