Classics of Literature

The hilarious adventures of Squire Bramble and his family as they travel through Britain allow for much comment on English life and manners in the 1760s. Smollett airs his considerable...

Jon is Mr Perfect - handsome (in a nerdy sort of way), caring, lots of money - so why can't he get a girlfriend? Even his best friend Tracie always...

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The author examines his life to find out who and why he is.

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A new translation of this moving novel about the destructive power of greed, part of the Maigret series Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'At first you saw only a mass of coarse, matted black hair; presently it was seen that this...

Graham Greene's best short stories, selected and introduced by the novelist and uber-fan, Yiyun Li. Graham Greene, known for his iconic novels, also wrote exceptional short stories. Here the some...

First published in 1814, this is a study of three families - the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices - in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price,...

Can a morally scrupulous English gentleman make an effective Prime Minister? This is one of the enduringly fascinating problems posed in The Prime Minister (1876). And as Plantaganet Palliser, Duke...

'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street'After the death of...

Plantagenet Palliser suffers a series of personal tragedies following his retirement as Prime Minister in Victorian England

Doctor Thorne (1858) is the third novel in the "Barsetshire" series. Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local...

The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance. The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm...

An iconic novel dressed in a fierce design by acclaimed fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo. This couture-inspired collection also features Jane Eyre, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter...

Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, 'The Trumpet Major' is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the...

This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man...

One of the less familiar of Mrs. Gaskell's novels, Ruth was in its own time a cause celebre which not only contributed substantially to its author's growing reputation but also...

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi's opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation "One of the greatest love stories of all time," according to Henry James,and the inspiration for...

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This is the third of the Barchester novels, and follows the fortunes of Dr Thorne, an upright and principled country doctor, and his niece Mary. She falls in love with...

This novel is of special interest because of the strong autobiographical parallels between the characters and circumstances of Stephen Smith and Elfride Swancourt and those of Hardy and his first...

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The classic tale of Tess Durbeyfield, wronged by two men and driven to vengeful murder, shows Hardy at his most fatalistic. Hardy felt that this was the finest of his...

An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths...

This new collection brings together First Love, The Calamative, The End and The Expelled; these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as...

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When John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester ablaze with the consequences. This book is the study of conflicting...

Has any other filmmaker become so famous that he has also become an adjective? A collection of brand new stories directly inspired by the master of suspense. The Sunday Times...

This is the first book featuring Erast Fandorin, a gentleman sleuth who solves murders and mysteries in tsarist Russia. A 23 year old law student commits suicide in broad daylight...

The first truly critical edition of Hardy's most controversial novel, presenting a "clean" text in which Hardy's own light punctuation is restored.

Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series...

The lost final novel by the master of the epic swashbuckling adventure stories: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The last cavalier is Count de Sainte-Hermine, Hector,...

The American South. A turbulent world, fraught with the Civil Rights struggle and toxic religious tensions. Against the backdrop of mountainous sunsets and backwater shacks, deserted highways and small-town gas...

The Dover Bookshelf steps into the whimsical world of Lewis Carroll with two of the English language's most popular and frequently quoted books. In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, rabbits are...

No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from...

Secondhand Dennis Wheatley Collection Bargain Book Box Step back into the golden age of thrillers with this striking collection of fifteen secondhand hardcover novels by the "Prince of Thriller Writers,"...

Secondhand Contemporary & Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box Discover a world of compelling narratives with this diverse collection of fifteen secondhand novels. From the classic Russian tales of Gogol to...

A man vilified by society and condemned to death for his crime wakes every morning knowing that this day might be his last. With the hope for release his only...

We did not know, when we started from home in Venice, on the 8th of November, 1864, that we had taken the longest road to Rome. We thought that of...

Penguin Classics relaunch THE DIARY OF A NOBODY began as a serial in Punch and the book which followed in 1892 has never been out of print. The Grossmith brothers...

The remarkable new work of fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders , Wasteland , Here We Are and Mothering Sunday In the aftermath of the Second World...

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A new selection of Dylan Thomas's greatest stories, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition For a boy growing up in an ordinary town in Wales, summer is 'always radiant,...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors. This collection of twelve original short...

'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him' Vladimir Nabokov...