Fiction

If any one writer stands at the heart of American literature it is Mark Twain....

'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind...

This edition presents a critically established text based on comparisons of every revised version. Hardy...

'I daresay I shall get through my trouble somehow.' Esther Waters is a young, working-class...

'Clennam rose softly, opened and closed the door without a sound, and passed from the...

'The Jago had got him, and it held him fast.' In the worst of London's...

'She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him...Would that he...

Following the phenomenal popularity of Sketches by Boz and The Pickwick Papers, Dickens produced two...

'it only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court'...

'Far and wide was [Redgauntlet] hated and feared. Men thought he had a direct compact...

'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the...

'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well,...

'It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything' After the death of...

'I think I must be an improper woman without knowing it, I do so manage...

'To become a member of the British Parliament!...He almost thought that he could die happy'...

'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.' The Duke of...

'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate...

'there were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely;...

This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the...

This collection of French short stories in translation expands our idea of French writing by...

V. S. Pritchett, one our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the...

Berlin Tales is a collection of seventeen translated stories associated with Berlin. The book provides...

In ways no guide book can achieve, these twenty absorbing tales by Italian authors ranging...

Includes: The Tinder-Box; The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina; The Little Mermaid; The Emperor's New...

Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of...

'I see her now - cousin Phillis. The westering sun shone full upon her, and...

In this interdisciplinary work, author Ron Edwards offers an innovative rereading of H. G. Wells'...

'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing...

'Twelve Year a Whore, fives times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve...

Widely recognized as one of the most imaginative writers of the 20th century, Philip K....

In Naga-Mandala Karnard weaves two Kannada folk-tales together. The first one comments on the paradoxical...

'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'. (Preface...

Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for...

'Jane Austen practising' Virginia Woolf Three notebooks of Jane Austen's teenage writings survive. The earliest...

'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.' Scholarly,...

'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself'The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been...

'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.'With his...

'The power that I have dreamed of all my life is mine at last!'How far...

'Can't you see that I don't care what anybody says?' Charity Royall lives in the...

'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.'Seventeen-year-old Effi...

Exploring the many moods of the Danish capital.From the narrow twisting streets of the old...

'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied'As Ivan Ilyich lies...

'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like...

Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of...

'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her...