Classic Fiction

New to Penguin Classics, the great underwater adventure story in a stunning clothbound edition with original images.In this thrilling adventure tal...

Having lived in the city of Orphalese for twelve years, the revered Prophet is about to board a ship taking him back to the isle of his birth. Befo...

A chilling collection of Henry James's finest ghost stories, now in a wonderful Clothbound Classics editionIn 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the m...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Greedily she engorged without restraint,And knew not e...

'A story for our, and all, times' GuardianSet in a town at the mercy of an epidemic, The Plague is an odyssey into the darkness and absurdity of hu...

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century: the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with tw...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. This was the slaying of the Minotaur, which put...

A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Whatever comes, she said, cannot alter one thing. If I...

'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.'Between t...

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the ...

One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his h...

Frederic Henry is an American Lieutenant serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army during the First World War. While stationed in northern...

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that dr...

From Collins Classics and the author of The Great Gatsby a marriage unravels in this autobiographical tale. Sometimes it is harder to dep...

This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melvilles masterpieces. In Bartleby, the Scrivener,...

Published in 1880, one year before Vergas influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift towards the veris...

Demian is a coming-of-age story that follows a young boy's maturation as he grapples with good and evil, lightness and darkness, and forges alterna...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville'The frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enorm...

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition feat...

'Of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a Man of his age! - just old enough to be formal, ungovernable and to have the Gout - too old to be ...

'Strangely enough, I mistook it for a gentleman at first. Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose.'With this pa...