Classic Fiction

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 unique Dublin Illustrated Edition, endorsed by The James Joyce Centre, meticulously recreates the 1922 text, and has been published to celebrat...

This volume brings together Virginia Woolfs last two novels, The Years (1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family ...

The passionate love story that led to The Bronze Horseman. They gave up everything to be together, but love was just the beginning Italia...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury. These three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I m...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson'One more step, Mr Hands, said I, and I'll blow yo...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end this brutal pattern ...

The Penguin English Library edition of North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell'How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mill on the Floss by George EliotIf life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?Tragic and mo...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens'A parish child - the orphan of a workhouse - the humble, half-starved drudge...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all...

The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easies...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding, a strength super...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Kim by Rudyard Kipling'He knew the wonderful walled city of Lahore from the Delhi Gate to the outer Fort Dit...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas HardyI would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if ...

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben WhishawDickens's epic, exubera...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque b...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster'I had got an idea that everyone here spent their lives in making...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Hard Times by Charles Dickens'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Fact...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. Writte...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were usel...

The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely written by an advisor ...

Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the excitement, the f...

'Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!' Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling ...

In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Con...

An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim is...

Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik C...

Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings,...

Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he f...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. I pay very little regardto what any young person says on t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Now he found out a new thing namely, that to promise ...