CLASSICS

Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur,...

On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose - sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects...

The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes."Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-"Montaigne on America,"...

In this Norton Critical Edition, G. R. Thompson has fully introduced, annotated, and edited each text."Backgrounds and Contexts" includes fifty-seven carefully chosen documents that illuminate Poe's prolific but short career,...

A misguided scientist seeks to instill life in a creature he has assembled from the bodies of the dead.

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of...

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield,...

Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and...

The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns and the kindly Miss Matty live in a village where women rule and men usually tend to get in the way. Their days revolve around...

'Curiouser and curiouser!'After a young girl named Alice takes a tumble down a rabbit hole, she finds a magical and nonsensical place called Wonderland.As Alice searches for a way home,...

'... call me Anne spelt with an E.' Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert need help on their farm, Green Gables, and arrange for the orphanage to send them a boy.Instead, they...

'I hope you will grow up gentle and good ...'Black Beauty begins his life on an idyllic English farm before moving to Birtwick Park, where he is treated with kindness...

'There is no place like home.'When a cyclone whisks Dorothy and her dog, Toto, away from Kansas to the magical Land of Oz, her only wish is to return home.Glinda...

'Men and their cubs are very wise. He may be a help in time.'The jungle is the only home Mowgli, the 'man-cub' has ever known.Raised by wolves, his days are...

'It is called the Land of Toys. Why don't you come, too?'As master carpenter Geppetto carves a puppet from enchanted wood, it slowly comes to life.Pinocchio wishes to be a...

'It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.'Mary Lennox, is a lonely young English girl living in India. Her world is turned upside after...

'The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!'Ratty teaches Mole how to be a true riverbanker. The two friends spend their days having picnics and rowing boats.Their...

'He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness.'Buck, a wealthy judge's dog, leads a quiet life until he is kidnapped, sold and taken to the...

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War, Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the...

A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also...

Mary Lennox, a spoiled, ill-tempered, and unhealthy child, comes to live with her reclusive uncle in Misselthwaite Manor on England's Yorkshire moors after the death of her parents. There she...

A TLS International Book of the Year(TLS, Dec 7, 2001)This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late...