Drugs, sexual obsession and a possible murder are the themes of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood". Also contained in this...

Tells of the psychological impact of European culture upon a spirited young American girl named Isabel Archer when she becomes...

The Professor is Charlotte Brontë's first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William...

The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious...

CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). A historical romance, this novel tells of the adventures of the hot-headed young Gascon, d'Artagnan...

The novel is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. It interweaves a romantic love story of the rivalry of...

The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star...

"Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in...

The protagonist, Tom Jones, is introduced to the reader as a ward of a liberal Somerset squire, appearing a generous...

Introduces us to a group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. This book involves the reader in the...

"The Turn of the Screw" is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country...

Tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which...

The story of Tom, Simon Legree, and oppressed slaves in the Antebellum South.

"When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is...

Set in a provincial town in the early 19th century, 'Wives and Daughters', Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is a subtle...

Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and cannot marry her intended, Giles...