Classics of Literature

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host,...

Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one...

A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first publication in 1847. Jane's journey from a troubled childhood...

Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and philosophical resonance of...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host,...

On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which...

Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London....

Now a major new adaptation by Emerald Fennell, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion...

Agatha's former husband James is engaged to be married to a beautiful, young woman and Agatha has been kindly invited to the wedding. To take her mind off this, Agatha...

An undiscovered novel by an iconic American food writer - the publication of this enchanting portrait of 1930s bohemian life will be a major literary event 'I sank into The...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range Michael Henchard has risen to become a prosperous merchant and mayor of Casterbridge, but he habours a shameful secret. In his youth, while in...

When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his...

Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary legacy, The Gambler is set in...

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful...

A tale of unbridled greed and an insatiable thirst for power set in eleventh-century Scotland, Macbeth has long been recognized as Shakespeare's fastest-moving tragedy, combining relentless narrative momentum with a...

The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the...

'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe The...

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls , a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated...

Described by the author as 'an offshoot rather than a continuation' of A FAVOURITE OF THE GODS, A COMPASS ERROR is set in under two summer months in a year...

No one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost...

The course of true love never did run smooth, but now you have only yourself to blame. No more throwing books across the room in frustration at the naive, hasty...

'A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of dislocation' - Jeff VanderMeer 'One might...

A major modern classic: the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemoia 'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' - Ali Smith 'A...

The Restless Classics edition of Chekhov: Stories for Our Time presents a must-have collection by the great Russian author who captured humanity in all its complexity, and reintroduces Chekhov as...

What just happened? The classic book you will need to dissect - the story of a writer whose research into a forgotten female author breaks down into a deeply creepy...

'Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book's a gift' Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout 'An ode to...

The classic boyhood adventure tale in a beautiful Deluxe Edition illustrated by Lilli Carre Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the...

An unhappy family returns to Britain from a hot country, filling their suburban house with the glittering hoard they brought back from their exotic sojourn. But the sadness of A,...

'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into a monstrous cockroach in his bed' Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community A Penguin Classic The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan's skin is...

One of our most beloved and elemental fairy tales, in tellings from across the centuries and around the world--published to coincide with Disney's live-action 3D musical film Beauty and the...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, and Toby Jones- a rollicking, bawdy, fantastical cycle of 50 fairy tales told by 10 storytellers over...

A literary discovery- a fascinating new trove of fairy tales by a contemporary of the Brothers Grimm that revolutionizes our understanding of the form A Penguin Classic A rare discovery...

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia A Penguin Classic A Brazilian Lord of...

One of the great World War I antiwar novels-honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel,Death of a Hero, finally...

The beloved Victorian children's tale now available in its original unabridged edition Instantly popular upon its initial publication in 1863,The Water Babiesis at once a bewitching childhood fantasy and a...

A new translation for a novel by one of Japan's most beloved authors A stunning new English translation-the first in more than forty years-of a major novel by the father...

New to Classics The Portable Edgar Allan Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings- tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...

The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick's monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship...

Jack London's semiautobiographical critique of individualism that touches on contemporary issues like socialism and mental illness, now two major motion pictures one directed by Pietro Marcello, the other by Jay...

Cooper's most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition. Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry...

A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires, Edith Wharton called Summer her 'hot Ethan.' In their rural...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandp re of science fiction - a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core that details encounters...

THE HOLY CITY IS NO PLACE FOR MERCY 'Matthew Plampin should rank with the best' Sunday Times 'Plampin is heartbreakingly good' The Times 'Gripping, immersive, at times very funny and...

Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects...

The third of the three greatest novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate , reissued for a new generation. I can't go on, I'll go on. The Unnamable is a voice....