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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
Author: Nick Laird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'All things may end, for all began; And truth and singleness of heart Are mortal even as is man'...
Selected Poems and Fragments
Author: Friedrich Hoelderlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe?s supreme poets. He first found his true voice...
The Dance of Death
Author: Hans Holbein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Author: Hogg, James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: A new edition of Hogg's haunting tale of a devilish doppleganger, edited and introduced by Hogg's celebrated biographer Karl Miller.Brought...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
Leviathan
Author: Thomas Hobbes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through...
Hesiod and Theognis
Author: Hesiod Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Together the poetry of Hesiod and Theognis offers a superb introduction to the life and thought of ancient Greece. Hesiod's...
The Complete Poetry
Author: George Herbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Throughout, Herbert brings his 'constant wit' to bear on anger, sorrow, desperation, wonder, praise and, above all, love. A...
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
Author: Georg Hegel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about...
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Penguin Classics relaunch. In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five...
Desperate Remedies
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...
Jude the Obscure
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...
The Woodlanders
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the...
King Solomon's Mines
Author: H. Rider Haggard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at...
Three Poets of the First World War
Author: Isaac Rosenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two - Who for his hours of life had...
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Author: Luo Guanzhong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of...
The Twelve Caesars
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them...
Dead Souls
Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in...
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories
Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: David Womersley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL...
The Complete English Poems
Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion...
The Beggar's Opera
Author: John Gay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The tale of Peachum, thief-taker and informer, conspiring to send the dashing and promiscuous highwayman Macheath to the gallows,...
Gothic Tales
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local...
Wives and Daughters
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters is a story of romance, scandal and intrigue within the confines of a watchful,...
Sylvia's Lovers
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where...
North and South
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 As relevant now as when it was first published, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South skilfully weaves a compelling love...
Chronicles
Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
Aspects of the Novel
Author: E. M. Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at...
The Longest Journey
Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary...
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino,...
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author: John Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Oh, that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes, I would whip...
Parade's End
Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Ford's great masterpiece set in the First World War, now in Penguin Black Classics with an introduction by...
The Good Soldier
Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by...
On Tangled Paths
Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love,...
Effi Briest
Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her...
Three Tales
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...
Sentimental Education
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the...
The History of Tom Jones
Author: Henry Fielding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1024 A foundling of mysterious parentage brought up by Mr Allworthy on his country estate, Tom Jones is deeply in...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and...
Medea and Other Plays
Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society, Euripides' Medea and Other...
Parzival
Author: Wolfram Eschenbach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left...
Silas Marner
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Penguin Classics Relaunch. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver...
Romola
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years...
Felix Holt: The Radical
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the...
Daniel Deronda
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She...
Adam Bede
Author: George Eliot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival,...
Selected Writings
Author: Meister Eckhart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327)...