Fiction

'no consideration, no delicacy, no tenderness, no scruples should stand in the way of a...

'he carried Good-nature to that wonderful and uncommon Height, that he never did a single...

'Though I have been dead these fifteen years, I still command here, and none can...

`About this coast... In the event of war it seems to me that every inch...

'You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and...

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy...

When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was...

Devils, also known in English as The Possessed and The Demons, was first published in...

Alexandre Dumas's novels are notable for their suspense and excitement, their foul deeds, hairsbreadth escapes,...

Carmen, Mérimée's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the...

The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the...

This collection brings together six of Turgenev's best-known `long' short stories, in which he turns...

La Dame aux Camelias still has the power to cast the spell that has fascinated...

`Why should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I...

'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said...

'Senneval, you see in me your sister, the girl you seduced at Nancy, the woman...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and...

'he thought it expedient and necessary that he should commence knight-errant, and wander through the...

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of...

'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to...

'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for...

Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography...

The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed...

One of France's best-selling writers at the time of the novel's composition, Dumas here combines...

Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of...

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its...

'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire' Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the...

'The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?' Michael Henchard is an out-of-work...

'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes...

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication,...

'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the...

'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest...

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern...

The Professor (1845-6), written before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its...

The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of...

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children....

Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the...

"Dom-bey and Son"...Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth...

'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive...

The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest `Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious...

'people get out of prison, and when they get out, and their name is Edmond...

'he looked up wistfully in my face, and gravely asked - "Mamma, why are you...

'Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?' Two Persian travellers,...

'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.'Zola's novel...