Fiction

'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a...

'Human nature may be easy to see through, but it is very hard to understand.'...

A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire...

The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons...

In the stories in this volume Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced...

'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of...

In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the...

The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s....

In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the...

`When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either...

Published in 1904, and drawing on London's own experience on board a sealing ship, The...

'She was swayed into emotional opinions concerning the strange man before her; new impulses of...

'Where is my nephew?, asked Mr Jasper, wildly. 'Where is your nephew?' repeated Neveille. 'Why...

This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of...

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short...

A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their...

This volume includes "Daisy Miller", "Pandora", "The Patagonia", and "Four Meetings". ABOUT THE SERIES: For...

In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions,...

'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.' Elfride is the...

The Three Musketeers (1844) is one of the most famous historical novels ever written. It...

Louise de la Balliere is the middle section of The Vicomte de Bragelonne or, Ten...

'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of...

'It is impossible to explain why Yevgeny chose Liza Annenskaya, as it is always impossible...

William Thackeray called it "the most laughable story that has ever been written since the...

`Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.' So wrote Melville of Billy Budd,...

Of all Jack London's fictions none have been so popular as his dog stories. In...

Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary...

'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden,...

One of the earliest American novels, Wieland (1798) is a thrilling tale of suspense and...

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only...

'a book I prize next to the Bible' Robert Burns Mackenzie's hugely popular novel of...

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told"?...

It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis...

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of...

With Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon had established herself, alongside Wilkie Collins and Mrs...

This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's tales is the first in paperback to present his...

'I shall never forget the day I wrote "The Mark on the Wall" - all...

'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance...

More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords....

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the...

'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for...

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly...

Armadale tells the devastating story of the independent, murderous, and adulterous Lydia Gwilt. This traditional...

Since its publication in 1905 The House of Mirth has commanded attention for the sharpness...

`It was not so much his great height that marked him ... it was the...