CLASSICS

A key backlist title from the highly acclaimed author of The Naked and the Dead and The Fight War hero, ex-Congressman, a professor of 'popular but somewhat notorious reputation', television...

Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance tells of the attempts of a like-minded group to begin reforming a dissipated America. However,...

Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance...

A further collection of stories by Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). consists of "The Duel", "Murder", "The Wife", "The Black Monk", "Terror" and "Big Volodya and Small Volodya", and complements two existing...

'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens only to his flatterers. When his cousin...

A stunning new edition of Forster's classic novel, with a new introduction by Sarah Winman, bestselling author of Still Life'One of the most beautiful, poignant and poetic love stories, as...

'A great novel ... bone-chilling black satire ... it deserves many readings' New York TimesA mock epic of explosive power, Bound to Violence races through the history of the imaginary...

A new selection of E. M. Forster's exquisite short stories, now in the beautifully designed Penguin English Library Series'We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make...

'Legendary... A seminal horror work' LA Review of Books'A classic... A fantastic collection' GuardianI cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts...

From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's FablesAesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and the...

'His perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!' "Pride and Prejudice" has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and...

'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.'Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot,...

"Emma" is Jane Austen's most characteristic work. Written with irony, wit, and faultless control, it is both a novel of intense emotional power and a comic masterpiece. This edition has...

This book is intended for general; nineteenth-century English Literature courses

'Four legs good, two legs bad.'When the animals of Manor Farm overthrow Mr Jones, their drunkard farmer, the pigs (Napoleon and Snowball) mastermind a new regime. Together, the animals create...

From master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and cheated his way through jobs all over the world. Then his adoring twin sister,...

Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester....

Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation for...

When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - 'This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man...

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against...