Adult Classics

Lambert Strether is sent by his wealthy fiancee, Mrs Newsome, to Paris to bring home her son Chad who is required to take charge of the family busi...

First published in serial form in Dickens's "Household Worlds", this novel centres around an early Victorian country town at a crucial moment of tr...

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunse...

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to ...

Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challengin...

Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten years' apprenticeship, Trollope finally...

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 ...

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival p...

Gulliver has many adventures as he first visits the island of Lilliput, where people are only 6 inches high, and then Brobdingnag, where the people...

A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted ...

Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is not the type that ...

trollope conceived the story of the novel in salisbury while wandering round the cathedral one midsummer eveing in the 1850s . Set in the world of ...

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteeth century rural England. At its core are f...

Join Katy for fun and splendid times Katy Carr intends to be beautiful and beloved and as sweet as an angel one day. For now, though, her hair is f...

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by ...

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-mannered siblings are greatly altered when, one ...

Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping ...

Lucy and Edmund, with their odious cousin Eustace in tow, journey on board the gallant ship the Dawn Treader to the Eastern Islands in search of th...