Classic Fiction

A brilliant new translation of Koestler's long-lost original manuscript. A chilling and unforgettable 20th century classic. From a prison cell in a...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND ENDURING CLASSIC A BARNES & NOBLE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME 'A tale profoundly appreciated' Kurt Vonnegut Can frie...

'White Nights' is one of Dostoevsky’s earlier short stories but one of his most enduringly popular. It tells the story of four nights in the life o...

The Fortnight in SeptemberAuthor: Sherriff, R.C.,authorContributors: Sherriff, R.C.,authorBinding: paperbackNumber Of Pages: 336Publication Date: R...

DISCOVER THE DU MAURIER DARK ROMANCE COLLECTION 'A brilliantly executed thriller' VOGUE 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'The mast...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty. 'An enth...

Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and ric...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous an...

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillus...

Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex. Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hard...

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever wri...

With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies. Translation by Louis Mercier. Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is not on...

Read Emily Brontë powerful tale of love and obsession that inspired the new film. 'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you ...

'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ... the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' S...

The contemporary classic from 'our supreme post-modernist' (Ian McEwan) - expanding the possibilities of the noir detective novel - whose writing '...

First published in 1954, William Golding's debut novel, now a classic, is a stark story of survival, probing the depths of human nature, and what h...

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear just what the nightm...

Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perenniall...

Dickens's Little Nell became one of his best-known heroines when The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in 1841. Virtuous and stoic, young Nell...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range. In Emily Bronte's only novel, the passion of Catherine and Heathcliff is as wild as the moors surrounding thei...

Recently brought back into the literary spotlight, this classic novella of yearning and heartbreak is presented here in an elegant pocket hardback ...

This lavish hardback edition with gold cover embossing and printed edges presents Lewis Carroll's classic story of Alice and her incredible adventu...

'Legendary... A seminal horror work' LA Review of Books 'A classic... A fantastic collection' Guardian I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars ha...

A thrilling blend of adventure and spy novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication in 1915 and has been ada...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in Englis...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Tim Middleton, Head of English Studies, University of Ripon and York. In seeking to discover his inner self, t...

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to ...

Sense and Sensibility (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Austen, JaneContributors: Austen, Jane: Author; Arkin, Professor Emeritus Stephen: Introduction;...

Aesops Illustrated Fables (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)Author: AesopContributors: ...

Item cover may varyAuthor: Tolstoy, Leo,author,Carabine, Dr Keith,series_editor,Greenwood, E.B.,introduction,Maude, Louise,tranContributors: Tolsto...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Thomas HardyContributors: Thomas Hardy: AuthorBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 384Publicat...

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the Univer...

JOIN THE OBSESSION 'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery' 'The marbled paper <3 I could cry' 'Love...

The Great Gatsby (Alma Classics Evergreens): Scott F. Fitzgerald: Annotated EditionAuthor: F. Scott FitzgeraldContributors: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Au...

Oliver Twist (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Charles DickensContributors: Charles Dickens: Author; Ella Westland: Introduction; George Cruickshank: Il...

The Great Gatsby: An essential, best-loved classic (Collins Classics)Author: Fitzgerald, F. ScottContributors: Fitzgerald, F. Scott: AuthorBinding:...

A Tale of Two Cities (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Dickens, CharlesContributors: Dickens, Charles: Author; Browne (Phiz), Hablot K.: Illustrator; Me...

Wuthering Heights (Collins Classics)Author: Brontë, EmilyContributors: Brontë, Emily: AuthorBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 400Publication Date:...

Pygmalion (Collins Classics)Author: Shaw, George BernardContributors: Shaw, George Bernard: AuthorBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 144Publication...

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Orwell, GeorgeContributors: Orwell, George: Author; Minogue, Dr Sally: IntroductionBindi...

Notes From Underground & Other Stories (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Dostoevsky, FyodorContributors: Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Author; Carabine, Keith...

Crime and Punishment: With selected excerpts from the Notebooks for Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Dostoevsky, FyodorContributor...

Boston, mid-seventeenth century: Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by her censorious Puritan n...

Ulysses (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Joyce, JamesContributors: Joyce, James: Author; Watts M.A. Ph.D., Professor Cedric: Introduction; Carabine, Dr...

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic lo...

The Count of Monte Cristo (Wordsworth Classics)Author: Dumas, AlexandreContributors: Dumas, Alexandre: Author; Wren, Keith: Introduction; Carabine,...

Subtitled 'A Study of Provincial Life', George Eliot s novel Middlemarch chronicles the titular nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of po...