Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Author: William Thackeray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 912 Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound...

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: Baroness Orczy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Unravelled Knots is the third classic collection of mysteries featuring the Teahouse Detective, the famous armchair detective who solves...

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: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us...

Author: Julian Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'An intricate and delightful novel' (Graham Greene) from Booker prize-winning author Julian Barnes. Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor...

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: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The nation's favourite Jane Austen novel - her enduring story of pride and prejudice Discover Jane Austen's most beloved...

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: Martin Boyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 228 At the outbreak of World War I, Dominic Langton leaves his wife on a remote sheep farm in New...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary...

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: 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: 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: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Now a feature film based on the Booker Prize-winning novel. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his...

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: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip...

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: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Jane Austen's moving depiction of wild emotions and bitterly suppressed feelings tells the story of two sisters- impulsive, idealistic...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1296 New Keira Knightley cover edition of the Complete novels in a handy B-format edition to benefit from huge success...

Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends...

Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The No.1 bestseller The Long Cosmos is the grand finale of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's acclaimed 'Long Earth'...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and...

Author: Isaac Asimov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of...

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...

Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 928 Vintage Classics brings you one of the most admired, best loved and most influential novels in the history of...

Author: Jules Verne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 It's science fiction from the masters of the genre! Special 3-D cover design PLUS each book comes with 3D...

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: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...

Author: Ann Radcliffe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I believe that on the first...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio...

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: 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: C. S. Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A beautiful paperback edition of Prince Caspian, book four in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia....

Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a...

Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A short, brilliantly evocative novel set in the bleak eastern European borderlands before the First World War. 'Every man...

Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A stunning, commercially-focused reissue of a Georgette Heyer backlist classic, perfect for fans of The Crown and ITV's...

Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...

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: Elizabeth von Arnim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. 'Oh, my dear, relations are...

Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Thomas Hardy's tragic vision of a love struggling to overcome prejudice and rejection, The Return of the Native is...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...

Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far...