Classic Fiction

Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long ...

In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pa...

'Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me' Alan Bennett'Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite bala...

'A brilliant portrait of betrayal, hypocrisy, love and loss' Chicago Tribune 'She tried to laugh, but was sobbing at the same time. She attempted ...

'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Bri...

This exciting new collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Featur...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Alice was beginning t...

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic. After four gr...

'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it'A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon'Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up he...

The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and a source of great...

As Paris is shaken by a spate of murderous robberies, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the cowardly lovers who n...

When the adventurer Allan Quatermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry''s missing brother, who was last...

The friends Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave Miss Pinkertons school together, ready to forge their paths in the tawdry and cut-throat world of t...

A dramatic departure for the #1 bestseller. A gripping story of rivalry and ambition, loyalty and love set in the heart of Elizabethan England. ...

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the ...

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to h...

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow acros...

Extraordinary both for the vividness of their descriptions and the success with which they imagine life from a non-human perspective, these two cla...

Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Brontë created, together with her sibl...