Literary Classics

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between...

An enchanting story of transformation and compassion, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden is widely considered to be one of the most import...

"He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to h...

A Modernist Masterpiece of Memory and Emotion In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-m...

This absurd and superbly comic classic follows a successful Moscow professor who attempts a daring scientific experiment by transplanting human org...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver ...

A Profound and Timeless Masterpiece of Intellect and Spirit In the remote, intellectual Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty-Third Centu...

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly ...

"Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication - discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece this black history m...

'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an im...

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This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surfa...

INTRODUCED BY PAUL BINDING 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman 'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' Philip Larkin...

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'Young is a sharp and funny writer with a brilliant eye for moral fudging and verbal hypocrisy, and she has a splendid foil in Miss Mole' Sally Bea...

"It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary," writes Franz Kafka in The Trial, a terrifying tale of psy...

Hermann Hesse's Demian is a profound literary masterpiece that explores the tumultuous journey of youth, dualism, and spiritual awakening. It follo...

'One of the greatest historical novels ever written' SARAH WATERS 'I love to find queer representation in historical fiction. . . Renault's eye fo...

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a literary masterpiece that delves into the depths of passion, revenge, and the supernatural. Set against the ...

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is a timeless tale set in the pastoral landscape of rural England. The narrative follows Bathsheba Everd...

In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves - and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it s...

Set on the English coast against the vivid backdrop of the sea, The Waves introduces six characters who are grappling with the death of a beloved f...

Review Before he was 40, Wright dominated literary America, publishing four books in seven years, each a triumph in its genre. His first novel...

Now a major BBC drama starring Timothy Spall, David Walliams and Jennifer Saunders. Published to coincide with the star-filled BBC production of Bl...

When Amy's husband dies on holiday in Istanbul, she is supported by the kindly but rather slovenly Martha, a young American novelist who lives in L...

'Spellbinding . . . Probably her best fiction' - Sunday Times The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty,...

In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: be...

A new edition of Orwell's elegiac fourth novel, introduced and annotated by his biographer, D.J. Taylor First published in 1939 and dominated by t...

First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard; then the budding poet with his thrilling friendships and dream...

This cherished classic by Louisa May Alcott narrates the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—growing up in a small New England c...

"Men Without Women" stands as Ernest Hemingway's definitive 1927 collection of short stories, serving as a visceral masterpiece that explores theme...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is a poignant exploration of a young woman's struggle against societal expectations and personal misfortu...

This atmospheric and introspective novel follows the journey of a young man struggling to escape the shadow of his famous father while searching fo...

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny ...

Stong-willed, reckless and fiercely independent, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to be a 'Person', to work, love and, above all, to live. Walkin...

Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering trace...

Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis remains one of the most chillingly visceral portraits of human isolation and social alienation ever put to page. Th...

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The S...

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. 'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a...