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Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her inheritance, the largest farm in the village. Her presence draws three suitors: the local...

Although Greene objected strongly to being described as a Catholic novelist rather than as a novelist who happened to be Catholic, Catholic religio...

The story relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who returns from finishing school overseas to a drab, lifeless rectory ...

North and South tells the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner newly settled in the northern industrial town of Milton, whose ready sympathy with t...

An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most delici...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*A spy is dead. A legend is born. Read the explosive new James Bond thriller.*****A British agent floats in the wat...

Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate New Yorker: handsome, almost always dressed in black, and part of the media elite. An expert on debunking the supernat...

Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time.\r\n\r\nThe sixtieth birthday ...

La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale ...

Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As t...

Another four of Agatha Christie’s twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series. A Caribb...

From the worlds biggest selling author comes another nail-biting page-turner. Paperback , 332 pages Published July 1st 2003 by Pan MacMillan (first...

Meek outsider among her cousins in the Unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua...

 Persuasion , her last novel, Jane Austen reveals her most mature dissection of people, place and social setting. Like the earlier works Persuasion...

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirat...

 young and lovely runaway alone on the road to London Miss Charity Steane is running away from the drudgery of her aunt's household to find her gra...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Serie...

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever, rich, and quite certain she is immune to romance. Inspired by the recent marriage of her friend and governess,...

The Tragedie of Julius Caesar dates from around 1599, and was first published by Heminge and Condell as the sixth play in the Tragedies section of ...

Jeanie has been a loving wife to George for over thirty years, a devoted mother to their daughter and, recently, an adoring grandmother – all this ...

Here is Douglas Adamss indispensable guide to life, the universe and everything. This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man be...

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than sixty years, ...

On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sa...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very ...