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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Patsy Stoneman, University of Hull. Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the authors first-hand exper...

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of ...

The Horror, Whatever It Was, Had Not Yet Entirely Spoiled That Marvellous Beauty Enthralled By His Own Exquisite Portrait, Dorian Gray Exchanges Hi...

A melodrama of honest youth triumphing over vice and injustice, this novel is an indignant protest against cruelty and oppression, most memorably e...

First published in 1847, Wuthering Heights is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors, where the drama of Catherine and Heathcliff, Heathcliffs cruel reve...

In the dark recesses of the Bastille, a young prisoner known only as Phillipe has spent eight years of his short life. When Aramis, posing as his c...

In this short novel Scot Fitzgerald distilled the essences of glamour and illusion so powerfully that his vision has haunted and tantalized generat...

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience ...

From The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "...and then, one Thursday, nearly 2,000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how g...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religio...

We have all been more or less to blame ... every one of us, excepting Fanny Taken from the poverty of her parents home, Fanny Price is brought up w...

Emily Brontës only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence, the Penguin Classics edition of Wuthering Heights is the definitive edit...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about th...

Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with ...

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival p...

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can es...

Middlemarch

Among Shakespeares plays, Hamlet is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is considered the jewe...

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, th...

The Mayor of Casterbridge , published in 1886, marks the beginning of the richest period in Hardys twenty-five years as a novelist. Subtitled The L...

John Cole has had a ringside seat on the British public life for the past 40 years.During that time he kept notes of his conversations with politic...

Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of sha...

On The Road Swings To The Rhythms Of 1950s Underground America, Jazz, Sex, Generosity, Chill Dawns And Drugs, With Sal Paradise And His Hero Dean M...

Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage t...

Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library editions of Shakespeares plays put readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. E...

In the dark recesses of the Bastille, a young prisoner known only as Phillipe has spent eight years of his short life. When Aramis, posing as his c...

Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened...

In Northanger Abbey, a young womans penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart. Austens first, t...

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters with opposing temperaments – Elinor is prudent, rational and responsible; Marianne is passionate, excitabl...

As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel De...

This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in ...

The Pilgrims Progress

The central drama of the book is that of Mr.Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely accused of theft, suffers bitterly with his family. Thi...

Librarians note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here (Andrew Betsis ELT edition), here , here , here and here . I...

A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman