'Tender is the Night' is based upon the author's unhappy marriage, and was written as he was experiencing the tragedies...

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.

For David Copperfield, orphaned and with a cruel stepfather, the future looks bleak. But a new start beckons with the...

A rich and pompous merchant is plagued by loneliness and misfortune.

Novel depicting Victorian industrial society.

A Victorian governess's love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion.

The beauty of the child-like Lady Audley would suggest that she has no secrets. Combining the elements of the detective...

With an Introduction, explanatory notes, and annotated bibliography by Nicholas Seager. This collection brings together Jane Austen's earliest experiments in...

The phrase 'life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Thomas Hardy as the title for this...

Presenting a tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, this novel highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and...

Presents Little Women which describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community,...

Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake...

This is an analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to...

This is the story of Captain Ahab's fanatical quest to get revenge on the whale which was responsible for the...

The life and loves of Nicholas, the orphaned son of a bankrupt man, form the basis of this complex novel...

This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing togheter the very best of his work