Classics Collection

Goodreads Rating: 3.79Publisher: Wordsworth EditionsAbout: Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, pre...

Author: George Eliot          Goodreads Rating: 3.96 Publisher: Penguin Books About:  George Eliot's greatest work is a magnificent portrait of a p...

Product Description Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate i...

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts l...

In the Introduction, Ronald Blythe comments Emma was the climax of Jane Austen's genius and the Parthenon of fiction. Jane Austen would have, no do...

Product Description Villette is an 1853 novel by Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from En...

Product Description  A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene ‘One of the most important British writers of the twentiet...

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educa...

Product Description  HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The woman who first gives life, light, and fo...

Description "The savagely funny, iconoclastic odyssey of Ernest Pontifex, from joyless duty to unbridled liberalism Reared on piety, repression and...

Product Description 'A revelation ... as well as being sympathetic to the plight of children, it is hilarious' A. N. Wilson The hero of Dickens's f...

  Undoubtedly the most famous of all of Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet remains one of the most enduring but also enigmatic pieces of western literatur...

Demonstrates that theory of evolution by natural selection discovered by Charles Darwin - is only answer to biggest question of all: why do we exist?

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.It's the closing months o...

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affai...

Call me Ishmael," Moby-Dick begins, in one of the most recognizable opening lines in Western literature. The name has come to symbolize orphans, ex...

The classic tale of Tess Durbeyfield, wronged by two men and driven to vengeful murder, shows Hardy at his most fatalistic. Hardy felt that this wa...

This is an ideal Christmas present, to give or receive. It includes Dickens's five most popular Christmas tales: The Chimes, The Haunted Man, The C...

Dickens’s story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of ...

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeti...

these three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and br>elisabeth maps for social and cultural supremacy in the village...

An ancient parchment bearing a mysterious cryptogram maps the most hazardous journey of Professor Lidenbrock's career. His journey to the centre of...

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accomp...

THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they...

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. H...

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literatur...

As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right...

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruel...

Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works.

Great Expectations is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses bo...

a work, published in 1821, in which the author describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his l...

Enter the haunting world of Frankenstein, a chilling masterpiece that defies the boundaries of science and morality. In this gripping tale of creat...

Mr Pooter's diary is a faithful record of the daily grind in respectable suburbia and the city office. It tells of his constant war against insolen...