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This is the novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and is
considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience
from chi...
'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and
instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In
Chaucer's most ambi...
This is an award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.
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 ...
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through
the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people:
Ada...
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an
open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the
belief that ...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its
style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the
glob...
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially
commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further
reading list. ...
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through
the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse
or r...
Full of passion and resolve, Lady Audley is a flaxen-haired beauty who
hides a murderous criminal secret...Addictive and cunningly plotted,
this n...
Only in her final novel, in 1876, did George Eliot turn to contemporary
English and European life as material for the expression of her own
ideali...
'I shall do one thing in this life - one thing for certain - that is,
love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.' Gabriel
Oak is...
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially
commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further
reading list. ...
'you are to understand, Mr. Pip, that the name of the person who is your
liberal benefactor remains a profound secret...' Young Pip lives with
his...
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly
given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville
Hall ...
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging
Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in
England. T...
More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony
of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his
brother'...
'Such a strange book! Imagine a novel with a little swarthy governess
for heroine, and a middle-aged ruffian for hero.' Sharpe's London
Magazine (...
This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story.
Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation
of ru...
One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's
composition, Dumas here combines what he considered to be life's
essentials - 'l'a...
Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable
of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it
beca...
This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical
speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's
frantic...
'the first and greatest of English detective novels' T.S.Eliot A
fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel
Verinder. Ou...
Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three
mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin:
"...
With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses
and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin the new guest at The Coach
and...
'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as
she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.' Anne
Ellio...
"The Pickwick Papers" was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success
when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr
Pickw...
his perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so
delightfully absurd!' Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of
readers with...
Daniel Defoe's first novel "Robinson Crusoe", published in 1719, is
considered by many to be the first novel in English, and its success was
so en...
'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd
his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's
seafaring ...
The tale of Little Nell gripped the nation when it first appeared in
1841. Described as a 'tragedy of sorrows', the story tells of Nell
uprooted f...
The Terror has begun. Paris, 1792. Each day scores of the French nobility feed the guillotine.
They are trapped in the capital. There is no esca...
'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home;
the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam' Bram Stoker's
1897 G...
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic
detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in
Scarlet. From...
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation
Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman
in whit...
'She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set
such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her
wi...
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an
adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad
returns and kid...
Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen
bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all
he...
Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such
classic works of science fiction as "The Time Machine and War of the
Worlds". Bu...
Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a
profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering
the...
"Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who
brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me!
Terror whe...
'Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of
people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see - because I do not
ha...
In this collection of 20 short stories, the editor Richard Ford has
selected his personal favourites of Chekhov's work. Includes are "The
Kiss", "...
Shewring's superb prose translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow.
'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Dorian
Gray has his portrait painted, he is captivated by his own beauty.
Tempte...
The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the
popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's
later wo...
Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark
psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality.
The story ...
He looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - "Mamma, why are
you so wicked?"' The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall has a dark
secr...
Back from the dead: the first ever zombie story
Before there was Dracula, there was The Castle in Transylvania.
In its first new translation in ...
The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels
ever written. It is also one of the world's greatest historical
adventure ...
'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?'
repeated Neveille. 'Why do you ask me?' 'I ask you,' retorted Jasper,
'be...
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from
Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first,
naive...
When country-girl Grace Melbury returns home from her middle-class
school she feels she has risen above her suitor, the simple woodsman
Giles Wint...
'there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could
rely; and out of those seven one was a boy ...' When a mysterious
seafarer p...
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial
book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately
drama...
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations
are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country
as ...
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul
for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry
Wotton,...
'I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind ...' Discovered on the
streets of Liverpool, Heathcliff is rescued by Mr Earnshaw and taken to
t...
Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the
ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer
in S...
An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape
his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his
expe...
'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels
for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so
stu...
With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Jules Verne (1828-1905) is
internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of
adventure stories de...
In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write
'a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick
Clu...
Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is
devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina.
Altho...
Many Christmas stories have been written through the years, but none has
become as much a part of the holiday landscape as A Christmas Carol--
or ...
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a
complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - -between the
fashion...