Classics

Synopsis Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Joseph Conrad’s enduring portrait of the ugliness of c...

Synopsis Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The work was first serialized in Scrib...

Synopsis The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. It employs several narrative styles, including stream of cons...

Synopsis The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. This is the other one . . . his other classic, a much m...

Synopsis Includes a new Introduction from Michael Dibdin. At M's request, Bond has gone up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card table, on a mission ...

Synopsis Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, d...

Synopsis Number 5 in The Guardian's 100 Best Novels. . . . Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, l...

Synopsis The Two Towers is the second of the three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings. It all takes place in the fictional universe of...

Synopsis With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Jules Verne had that rare storyteller's gift...

Synopsis "A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead . . ." "This is a record of hate...

Synopsis The celebrated P.J. Lynch captures the spirit of Dickens's beloved tale in a richly illustrated unabridged edition. The story of Ebenezer ...

Synopsis This, his first novel, Crome Yellow, is quite far from a sci-fi novel, being instead of the species of British manor satires. On vacation ...

Synopsis The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of t...

Synopsis Subtitled : An Entertainment. Designed to appeal to the booklover, The Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift...

Synopsis Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of t...

Synopsis With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. James was a master of the novella - the kind of tal...

Synopsis Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a d...

Synopsis Includes 3 other short stories. Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tif...

Synopsis "There was only one catch and that was Catch-22." With an introduction by Howard Jacobson. Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years...

Synopsis "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . " With these words a reader is swept up into a world of secrets and lies; one of the ...

Synopsis The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War....

Synopsis Emily Brontë's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense a...