CLASSICS

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeThe Phantom of the Opera tells the tale of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. Mesmerized by the talents and beauty...

Part of the Chiltern Classics seriesOne of Mark Twain's best-known and most important novels tells the story of Huckleberry Finn's escape from his alcoholic and abusive father and Huck's adventurous...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The title, The Moonstone, refers to a brilliantly beautiful but flawed gem seized by a British officer in India. The officer brings it back to...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie is a free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter spends his never-ending childhood having...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Good Wives takes off about three years after where Little Women left off. Meg is about to get married, Jo is attempting to launch a...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.A curse has hung over the Baskerville family for generations and the latest victim is Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the legendary gigantic hound be responsible...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeSilas Marner tells the story about a weaver and how his life changes. The story begins with Silas, who has been displaced from his former...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeAs Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party, the appearance of a former suitor stirs thoughts aboutchoices she made long ago. Elsewhere in London, the...

"Sultana's Dream and Padmarag" are boldly provocative works, particularly in the context of the era that spawned them. Written in English in 1905, "Sultana's Dream" is a delightful satirical work...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.In Great Expectations, one of his best-loved novels, Dickens tells the enthralling story of the orphaned Pip and introduces us to a gallery of unforgettable...

Part of the Chiltern Classics seriesThe tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is one of the most famous plays written by the English author, William Shakespeare. It is a story about two...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.When Alice follows a well-dressed white rabbit down a hole, she enters a magical subterranean world. There she encounters an extraordinary cast of characters, including...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The realities of married life in a provincial town fall a long way short of Emma Bovary's romantic expectations. To fill the void she embarks...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeThe Time Machine offers a post-apocalyptic vision of humanity's future. A scientist builds a time machine and travels to future. He finds that humanity has...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeThe Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess who is sent to Bly, a large country estate, to care for two...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The residents of Cranford are regimented aristocrats who "practice 'elegant economy.'" The ladies go calling only during prescribed times, serve one another inexpensive foods, pretend...

Part of the Chiltern Clssics range.When Ishmael joins the crew of a whaling ship, he doesn't know that the captain is obsessed with taking revenge on Moby Dick, the great...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Hard Times was published in 1854 and is set in Northern England in Coketown, a polluted and suffering place with smoke-filled factories and soulless workers...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workhouse is lonely and sad. Oliver becomes an apprentice for an undertaker...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Since its publication in 1923, The Prophet has provided inspiration and spiritual guidance to generations of readers. Exploring universal themes such as love and marriage,...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.George Orwell's Animal Farm is a short novel written during World War II and published in 1945. It tells the story of a group of...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeOrphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor, a remote mansion on the Yorkshire moors. She is a lonely child...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet tells the story of the ghost of the King of Denmark who tells his son Hamlet,...

Part of the Chiltern Classics seriesPhileas Fogg is convinced that it is possible to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. Determined to prove it, he and his new valet, Jean...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeWhen Helen Graham takes the tenancy of Wildfell Hall, she incites passion and rumour among the local community. Helen's secrets are slowly revealed; the flight...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man describes Stephen Dedalus's development from a bright young student to a promising clergy student to an...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The Age Of Innocence tells the story of a wealthy lawyer Newland Archer, who is engaged to sweet socialite May Welland in 1870s New York....

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Far From A Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy tells the story of a farmer named Gabriel Oak who falls in love with a headstrong, independent...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Afternoon eighteen years as a prisoner in the Bastille, Dr Manettee settles in London with his long-lost daughter Lucie. But their tranquil existence is shattered...

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

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The young and unworldly Tess is thrown into the clutches of predatory Alec D'Urberville and so begins a series of events that will the shape...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksI went down, I climbed back up into the light of the jaguar sun - into the sea of the green sap...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'Why should I bother to invent things? My life has been far more exciting and wonderful than any fairy-tale'In the heart of...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksJourney into space with Polish scifi master Stanislaw Lem. The whimsical time-loops of Ijon Tichy's cosmic adventure in 'The Seventh Voyage' are...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'I decided that my trip had evidently been in vain, since nothing of interest could possibly occur on this visit. I was...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'What does love fear? Limitation.'Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksClosely Watched Trains tells the story of Milos Hrma, a young railroad apprentice coming of age in wartime Czechoslovakia. Milos is overwhelmed...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksIt's terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning....

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories - 'The Broken Nest' and 'Dead...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksPriests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazan, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksHow light and alive she was! Like a bird caught in a net . . .Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMy delight in playing turned to a lust for playing, my lust for playing into a compulsion to play, a mania, a...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksThere was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was...