Literary Classics

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

'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times Mr Marling, of Marling ...

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...

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

Review Such a wonderful book. Utterly unique, exquisitely crafted and quietly powerful. I loved it and want everyone to read this lost literary tr...

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...

*WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE MONTH* Paris, 1891 Laura is living on the streets, far from the American Prairies where she was born. When rescued b...

'All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The M...

The Wuthering Heights Journal complements Emily Brontë’s timeless literary masterpiece with its classic-inspired hardcover design and elegant natur...

About the Author Richard Wright was born near Natchez, Mississippi, in 1908, to a sharecropping family of ex-­slaves. His mother was a schoolt...

"A vital link in the evolution of Beckett's early work." Originally intended as the "recessional" or final piece to Samuel Beckett's 1934 short sto...

One of the most enchanting books about cats ever written, Minka and Curdy describes the adventures - and misadventures - of two very different kitt...