Wordsworth
Utopia
85%
More's 'Utopia' is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought,…
Nostromo
77%
Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome…
Mrs Dalloway
75%
Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form…
Little Dorrit
86%
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens'…
The Pilgrim's Progress
85%
The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest…
The Confessions
56%
The World Literature series reproduces the greatest books the world over with only the highest…
Ben Hur
79%
An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A…
The Complete Illustrated Lewis Carroll
75%
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) is famed for his magical stories, Alice in Wonderland and…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
87%
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in…
Daniel Deronda
75%
George Eliot's final novel, «Daniel Deronda» (1876), follows the intertwining lives of the…
Fathers and Sons
97%
Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been…
Histories
76%
Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western…
The Idiot
67%
Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the…
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
89%
Jules Verne's third science fiction novel describes the discovery and exploration of a secret…
Life's Little Ironies
56%
The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short…
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories (Original Illustrated «Strand» Edition)
67%
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made…
Selected Stories
58%
Anton Chekhov is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of short stories. He constructs…
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
66%
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love,…
Tristram Shandy
85%
Laurence Sterne's «The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman» is a huge literary paradox,…
The Woodlanders
98%
Educated beyond her station, Grace Melbury returns to the woodland village of little Hintock and…