Classic Fiction

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most ce...

Poverty is what I am writing about. In the late 1920s, Eric Blair resigned his post as a colonial policeman in Burma, immersed himself in the slum...

Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt,...

'The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which...

Just like the best walks, The Joy of Walking takes you on a journey with lots to surprise and enjoy along the way. Through the best of classic writ...

'The face was quite unfamiliar to her, and yet not strange. She had not known till this moment what face to expect'. A Clergyman's Daughter is Geo...

Simplicius Simplicissimus - the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language - chart...

Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel (1925) is a novel by Carl Van Vechten. Published in the same year as F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby and An...

This Is the End (1917) is a novel by Stella Benson. Based on the authors experience in the movement for womens suffrage, This Is the End is a story...

A Passion in the Desert (1830) is a short story by French author Honoré de Balzac. Written as part of his La Comédie humaine sequence, A Passion in...

The Snakes Pass (1890) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written at the beginning of his career, The Snakes Pass helped to establish the Iris...

The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908) is a novel by Ford Madox Ford. The third and final installment of Fords The Fifth Queen Trilogy is set during the re...

Many Marriages (1923) is a novel by Sherwood Anderson. Inspired by his own decision to abandon his family and career in order to establish himself ...

Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentlemans gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic short story...

Working hard to survive in a harsh world, the Peppers still find joy and love in their little brown house - until a chance encounter with a wealthy...