The Monk
Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest.
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Little Womenincluding Good Wives
Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences.
D2 The Phantom Of The Opera
The little known, brilliant original text by Gaston Leroux has been immortalized by screen and stage adaptations. One of the greatest horror stories of all time, The Phantom of the Opera makes compulsive reading.
Black Beauty (4, 2021) | Anna Sewell
Anna Sewells Black Beauty was an immediate success on its publication in 1877, and has gone on to sell an estimated 50 million copies. Black Beauty is a horse with a fine black coat, a white foot and a silver star on his forehead. Seen through his eyes, t
The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (4, 2015) | Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850. Yet today we have only a
Wuthering Heights (4, 1992) | Emily Bronte,Golden Deer Classics,Emily BrontA«,Emily BrontAÂA«,Emily BrontAÂÃ'AÂÃ'AÂaÂÂAÂA«
Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine''s father. After Mr
Frankenstein (4, 1992) | Mary Shelley
Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart. The tale is a superb blend
The Iliad (4, 1995) | Homer
With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. The product of more than a decade's continuous work (1598-1611), Chapman's translation of Homer's great poem of war is a magnificent testimony to the power of T
Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling (4, 1994) | Rudyard Kipling
Introduction and Notes by R.T. Jones, Honorary Fellow of the University of York. This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) includes all the poems contained in the Definitive Edition of 1940. In his lifetime, Kipling was widely rega
Pride and Prejudice (4, 1992) | Jane Austen
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. 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 and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has on
Hamlet (4, 1992) | William Shakespeare
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics'' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare''s works. The Textual editing
The Picture of Dorian Gray (4, 1992) | Oscar Wilde
With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde''s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships
Othello (4, 1992) | William Shakespeare
Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics'' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its inaugral volumes, presents a newly
Great Gatsby (4, 1992) | F. Scott Fitzgerald
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age".Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficial
Persuasion (4, 1993) | Jane Austen
Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen''s quietest heroines, but also
Dracula (4, 1993) | Bram Stoker
Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. ''There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red u
Heart of Darkness (4, 1995) | Joseph Conrad
Introduction and Notes by Gene M. Moore, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad''s shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interp
Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (4, 1994) | Emily Dickinson
With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems we
Twenty Years After (4, 2009) | Alexandre Dumas
With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers,/em>, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much be
Uncle Tom's Cabin (4, 1999) | Harriet Beecher Stowe
Editedand with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom''s Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe''s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramat
Irish Fairy Tales (4, 2001) | Joseph Jacobs
Illustrated by John D. Batten. Stories selected by Jennifer Chandler, The Folklore Society. The captivating Irish stories collected in this new edition include both comic tales such as Paddy O''Kelly and the Weasel , and tales of heroes from anci
The Whisperer in Darkness (4, 2007) | H. P. Lovecraft,H.P. Lovecraft
Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliott. That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings th
The King in Yellow (4, 2010) | Robert W. Chambers
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ''I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet''. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrica
The Good Soldier (4, 2010) | Ford Madox Ford
With an Introduction and Notes by Sara Haslam, Department of English, The Open University. The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before t
The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories (4, 2017) | H. G. Wells,H.G. Wells
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder, Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University ''Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say: this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will ma
The Little Prince (4, 2018) | Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book''s brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared
Sanditon (4, 2024) | Jane Austen
With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austens earliest experiments in the art of fiction and novels that she left incomplete at the time of her premature death in 1817.
Sense and Sensibility (4, 1992) | Jane Austen
Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco University. ''Young women who have no economic or political power must attend to the serious business of contriving material security''. Jane Austen''s sardonic humour lays bare the
The Scarlet Letter (4, 1992) | Nathaniel Hawthorne
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. T
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (4, 1992) | Jules Verne
With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies. Translation by Louis Mercier. Jules Vernes 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is not only a classic science fiction novel, it is also a thrilling adventure yarn. Professo
Karamazov Brothers (4, 2010) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P. Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who
Waves (4, 2000) | Virginia Woolf
Introduction and Notes by Deborah Parsons, University of Birmingham. ''I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot'', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys
Wives and Daughters (4, 1999) | Elizabeth Gaskell
With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Gaskells last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships fat
Crime and Punishment (4, 2000) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the fr
Man in the Iron Mask (4, 2001) | Alexandre Dumas
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas'' celebrated foursome of D''Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appear
The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories (4, 2006) | Wilkie Collins
Editedand with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Have you ever heard of the fascination of terror? This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonsto
Notes From Underground & Other Stories (4, 2015) | Fyodor Dostoevsky
With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevskys short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his s
House of the Dead / The Gambler (4, 2010) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky''s fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works b
Little Women & Good Wives (4, 2018) | Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is one of the best-loved children''s stories of all time, based on the author''s own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes
Three Musketeers (4, 1992) | Alexandre Dumas
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman,
War and Peace (4, 1993) | Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon''s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy''s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.Three of thes
Hunchback of Notre-Dame (4, 1993) | Victor Hugo
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by James Carroll Beckwirth (1899). Set in 1482, Victor Hugos powerful novel of imagination, caprice and fantasy is a meditation on love, fate, architecture
Madame Bovary (4, 1993) | Gustave Flaubert
With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert''s contemporaries, the fa
Enchanted Castle (4, 1994) | Edith Nesbit
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring
The Idiot (4, 1996) | Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroile
Orlando (4, 1995) | Virginia Woolf
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf''s Orlando ''The longest and most charming love letter in literature'', playfully construc
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde (4, 2000) | Oscar Wilde,Dylan Thomas
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate
Count of Monte Cristo (4, 1997) | Alexandre Dumas
With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren, University of Kent at Canterbury. The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for r
The Railway Children
When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered and their lives have to change forever.
Capital (4, 2013) | Karl Marx
Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing internationa
Leviathan (4, 2014) | Thomas Hobbes
With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbess Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most controversial, works of political philosophy wri
Tao Te Ching (4, 1997) | Lao Tzu
Translated with Notes by Arthur Waley. With an Introduction by Robert Wilkinson. Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. Within its pages is summed up a complete view o
Interpretation of Dreams (4, 1997) | Sigmund Freud
Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson. Sigmund Freud''s audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams , has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900. Freud is acknowledged as the
Meditations (4, 1997) | Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius,Marcus Aurelius
The "Meditations" of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts and indulgence, man could acquire virtue and live at one w
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (4, 1998) | Edward Gibbon
Gibbon''s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy
Prince (4, 1993) | Niccolo Machiavelli,Niccolò Machiavelli
Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich. Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the exercise of power. It remains as relevant today a
Social Contract (4, 1998) | Jean-Jaques Rousseau
With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law
Holy Qur''an (4, 2000) |
Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur''an (also known as The Koran ) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, s
Treasure Island
Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne, red-headed, pugnacious and incurably romantic, causes chaos at Green Gables and in the village, but her wit and good nature delight the fictional community of Prince Edward Island, Canada, and ensure that Anne of Green Gables continues to be a firm
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (Collector's Edition) (3, 2024) | Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen is the best-loved of all tellers of fairy tales.This collection of over forty of Andersens most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly
Mrs Dalloway (3, 2022) | Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf''s singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is gi
Little Women (3, 2018) | Louisa May Alcott
Little Women is one of the best-loved children''s stories of all time, based on the author''s own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be
Jane Eyre (3, 2019) | Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage.She is forced to battle
Pride and Prejudice (3, 2019) | Jane Austen
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 and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In
The Great Gatsby (3, 2019) | F. Scott Fitzgerald
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the Jazz Age.Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially
Moby Dick (3, 2022) | Herman Melville
Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahabs quest to avenge the whale that reaped his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahabs appa
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (3, 2022) | Robert Louis Stevenson,Joseph Jacobs,Robert Louis Stephenson
man is not truly one, but truly two.In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and antic
The Picture of Dorian Gray (3, 2022) | Oscar Wilde,Dylan Thomas
Wilde''s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the re
Robinson Crusoe (3, 2022) | Daniel Defoe
From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Cru
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Collector's Edition) (3, 2023) | William Shakespeare
Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Nights Dream one of the most popular of Shakespeares works. The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blen
Anne of Avonlea (Collector's Edition) (3, 2024) | Lucy Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea continues Annes story. Now half-past sixteen but as strong-headed and romantic as ever, Anne becomes a teacher at her old school and dreams of its improvement. But her responsible position and mature ambitions do not prevent her entangleme
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Collector's Edition) (3, 2023) | D.H. Lawrence
Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband''s return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her fo
The Wizard of Oz (Collector's Edition) (3, 2024) | L. Frank Baum
In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell her to
Animal Farm (Collector's Edition) (3, 2024) | George Orwell
In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britains ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalins brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still cele
D1 The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
During Emily's life only seven of her 1775 poems were published. This collection of her work shows her breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity. Once branded an eccentric Dickinson is now regarded
The Great Gatsby (Luxe Edition) (3, 2022) | F. Scott Fitzgerald
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the Jazz Age. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficia
The Little Prince (Heritage Collection) (3, 2024) | Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the books brevity. Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943, only a year before his plane disappeared on
Wuthering Heights (Heritage Collection) (3, 2024) | Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherines father. After Mr Earnshaws death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherines brother
Pride and Prejudice (Heritage Collection) (3, 2024) | Jane Austen
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 and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In
The Great Gatsby (Heritage Collection) (3, 2024) | F. Scott Fitzgerald
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald''s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the Jazz Age.Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially