FICTION NOVELS

Set In Hardys Wessex, Tess Is A Moving Novel Of Hypocrisy And Double Standards. Its Challenging Sub-title, A Pure Woman, Infuriated Critics When Th...

Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrads shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very ...

On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sa...

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than sixty years, ...

Here is Douglas Adamss indispensable guide to life, the universe and everything. This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man be...

Jeanie has been a loving wife to George for over thirty years, a devoted mother to their daughter and, recently, an adoring grandmother – all this ...

The Tragedie of Julius Caesar dates from around 1599, and was first published by Heminge and Condell as the sixth play in the Tragedies section of ...

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever, rich, and quite certain she is immune to romance. Inspired by the recent marriage of her friend and governess,...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Serie...

 young and lovely runaway alone on the road to London Miss Charity Steane is running away from the drudgery of her aunt's household to find her gra...

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirat...

 Persuasion , her last novel, Jane Austen reveals her most mature dissection of people, place and social setting. Like the earlier works Persuasion...

Meek outsider among her cousins in the Unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua...

From the worlds biggest selling author comes another nail-biting page-turner. Paperback , 332 pages Published July 1st 2003 by Pan MacMillan (first...

Another four of Agatha Christie’s twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series. A Caribb...

Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As t...

La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale ...

Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time.\r\n\r\nThe sixtieth birthday ...

Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate New Yorker: handsome, almost always dressed in black, and part of the media elite. An expert on debunking the supernat...

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An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most delici...

North and South tells the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner newly settled in the northern industrial town of Milton, whose ready sympathy with t...

The story relates the story of two sisters, daughters of an Anglican vicar, who returns from finishing school overseas to a drab, lifeless rectory ...