Classic Fiction

E. M. Delafield's largely autobiographical novel takes the form of a journal written by an upper-middle-class lady living in a Devonshire village. ...

Stranded alone on a remote island, Robinson Crusoe must summon the courage, inventiveness and faith necessary to survive and avoid despair in the m...

When Fanny Price is sent away from her struggling family to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, life doesnt suddenly transform for her. At least,...

The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes.- Edg...

Phileas Fogg puts up half his fortune wagering that he can circumnavigate the earth in 80 days. Encountering one adventure after another and pursu...

Nikolai Gogols novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of reader...

Nikolai Gogols novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of reader...

Joseph Roth's sensibility-both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane-produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the...

What Not is Rose Macaulays speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics and newspaper manipulation that anticipated Aldous Huxleys Brave New ...

The Runagates Club is John Buchan's last collection of short stories, and is a classic of British interwar short fiction. These twelve stories were...

'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre ...

'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are...

Nathaniel Hawthornes The Marble Faun mingles fable with fact in a mysterious tale of American artists liberated from New England mores in Rome. In ...