CLASSICS

First published in 1937, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cross-country train.'A highly ingenious, entertaining and unusual tale' - Daily HeraldThe luxurious Transcontinental Express, a locomotive journeying...

'Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life?'One of America's best loved poets, Mary Oliver is also among nature's most brilliant and devoted...

The third volume of William Golding's acclaimed Sea Trilogy.A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off course and battered...

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very...

This beautifully designed treasury gathers Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved fairy tales in a gilt-stamped, hardcover volume, abundantly illustrated by full-color and black-and-white images by Golden Age master Harry Clarke....

Vivacious, young Hester Christie tries to run her home like clockwork, as would befit the wife of British Army officer, Tim Christie. However hard Mrs Tim strives for seamless living...

The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions...

Northanger Abbey is the earliest of Jane Austen's great comedies of female enlightenment and combines literary burlesque - making fun of the excesses of the Gothic novel - with larger...

Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine...

The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and...

Kafka's chilling and darkly entertaining exploration of life's absurdity, now in Penguin Clothbound ClassicsA terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up...

Early in 1836, the 23-year old Dickens, still primarily a journalist and successful author of "Sketches by Boz", was invited by his publishers to write a "monthly something" illustrated by...

Considered by many to the greatest novel ever written, Tolstoy's masterpiece is a story of family life set against the backdrop of war. The novel begins in 1805 in the...

In a sense, there are two distinctly separate Portraits-the 1880-81 First Edition and the New York Edition, which James extensively revised. The editor has meticulously prepared a list of textual...

When The Centurions was first published in 1960, readers were riveted by the thrilling account of soldiers fighting for survival in hostile environments. They were equally transfixed by the chilling...