CLASSICS

Thomas Mann's first great novel, written at the age of 25, is an epic study of decadence among the merchant families of Hamburg at the end of the nineteenth century....

Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo - though over one hundred years old - says...

A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, which when first published in 1991 was described by the TIMES as 'a miracle' and by THE INDEPENDENT as a near 'ideal translation'....

"My favorite novel -it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart." Daniel Radcliffe.The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking...

Victor Frankenstein driven by the mad dream of creating his own creature, experiments with alchemy and science to build a monster stitched together from dead remains. Once the creature becomes...

Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally...

Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised later,...

His stories are fillled with the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and...

Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel....

Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and...

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the...

In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and...

The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times...

Middlemarch- A Study of Provincial Life, published 1871-2, is set in the imaginary county of Loamshire during the years of unrest preceding the 1832 Reform Bill. With its complex plot,...

The first great novel - and perhaps still the most influential - Don Quixote contains within it all the seeds of modern fiction. A fantastic compound of reality and illusion...

A deluxe collector's edition of a timeless classic, this beautiful hardback includes a new introduction by writer and literary historian Brian Busby.

This beautiful hardback makes the perfect gift for any book lover.

This beautiful box set makes the perfect gift for any book lover.

Soon to be the major motion picture Greyhound, released in May 2020 and starring Tom Hanks.

Published in a handsome hardback edition, this fascinating story, packed with detail and incident, brings 17th century London to life as it struggles to deal with an epidemic of bubonic...

This elegantly designed, hardback edition is the perfect gift for any literature lover.

There is an upcoming major cinematic adaptation of Little Women starring Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet and Emma Watson, which will revitalise interest in her work.

Contains the original, unabridged text.

Contains the original, unabridged text.

Features the original, unabridged text.

Contains the original, unabridged text.

The African Queen was adapted for cinema in 1951, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, and has become known as one of the great works of classic cinema.