Classics

Written in the last months of Austen's life, Sanditon features a glorious cast of hypochondriacs and speculators in a newly...

Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the...

Collecting Alice's complete adventures, a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations, the Penguin Classics...

Homer's The Odyssey is an epic that has endured for thousands of years, and this Penguin Classics edition is translated...

Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....

Previously published as The Essential Rumi, Rumi's Selected Poems is translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne in Penguin Classics. Thirteenth-century...

Oscar Wilde's tale of a Faustian pact in Victorian England, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a both a slow-burning...

A young Prince meets his father's ghost in the middle of the night, who accuses his own brother,...

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people,...

Ruby has always been the generous mediator among her friends, family and colleagues, which is why they have...

Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal...

Wuthering Heights has achieved an almost mythical status as a love story, yet it is also a unique masterpiece...

With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world, of human life lived...

For more than 400 years, the plays of William Shakespeare have thrilled and entertained audiences the world over....

Anne Brontë's powerful novel is an exploration of a woman's struggle for creative freedom and domestic independence, and...

In his quest to find his emotional and independent self, Paul Morel is torn between the strong, Oedipal...

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random...

'Stars, hide your fires;Let not light see my black and deep desires.'Fresh from victory on the battlefield, the...

I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall...

'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful...

No man's cub can run with the people of the Jungle,' howled Shere Khan. 'Give him to me!When...

Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street...

Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside with her restlessness and...

This delightful and sophisticated mystery transports reader through an era of Victorian history. With the death of her...

Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly the...

This is a humorous, scandalous and picaresque tale of a young lad, reared by a magnanimous benefactor who...

A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his...

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children given into...

Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters—three men and...

'To the Lighthouse' is Virginia Woolf's fifth novel. The story of an English middle class family in the...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing takes account...

A study of Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent...

This new translation has been acclaimed as the definitive English version of Tolstoy's masterpiece. The volume contains an...

Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, and...

Set in a world of kings and queens, celestial battles, invisible foes, and family rivalries, this epic tale...

In War and Peace (1868-9), Tolstoy entwines grand themes - conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate...

Beautiful clothbound edition of Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love, ahead of the major new film...

‘True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I...

Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress...

A gorgeously crafted edition of a great American classic-James Fenimore Cooper's epic tale of frontier life during the...

 The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South...

T.S. Spivet is a genius mapmaker who lives on a ranch in Montana. His father is a silent...

What better place than pale England to hide a secret society of gentlemen vampires?In this hilarious retelling of...

   We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a lonely, mieserly old man who hates Christmas, which he dismisses as hunbug. One Christmas...

It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in...