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The Tower of the Swallow
The Tower of the Swallow
Andrzej Sapkowski

Geralt the Witcher races to find his missing ward, Ciri, in this fourth novel in the bestselling Witcher series that ins...

Beowulf: A New Translation
Beowulf: A New Translation
Maria Dahvana Headley

Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Stat...

The Color Purple : Hachette Essentials
The Color Purple : Hachette Essentials
Alice Walker

The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lo...

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov

Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman o a professor of black magic o arrives ...

Home Fire
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie

"Ingenious5 Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." 7The New York Times LON...

Flowers For Algernon : A Modern Literary Classic
Flowers For Algernon : A Modern Literary Classic
Daniel Keyes

'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking' Guardian Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusual...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Alice Walker

Set in the deep American South between the wars, The Color Purple is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into pov...

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the So...

Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann

Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the pri...

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell

All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolu...

The Queen's Gambit
The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES starring Anya Taylor-Joy from Academy-Award nominee Scott Frank and BAFTA nominee Allan Scott...

American Psycho
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall...

Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Emma (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Jane Austen

Discover the classic story behind the major new film'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her ea...

Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly
Agatha Christie

Never before published—the lost classic, unseen for sixty years!A party game goes dead wrong in this ingenious mystery...

Problem at Pollensa Bay
Problem at Pollensa Bay
Agatha Christie

An Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories.Parker Pyne is on holiday at th...

The Listerdale Mystery
The Listerdale Mystery
Agatha Christie

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories.After Mr St Vincent’s deat...

The Complete Tommy & Tuppence Collection
The Complete Tommy & Tuppence Collection
Agatha Christie

The complete eBook collection of all five Tommy & Tuppence mysteries by the Queen of Mystery herself, Agatha Christie, i...

Little Women
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott

Discover this beautiful and charming classic book behind the new major film. 'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be...

Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and ...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley '...

Stoner by John Williams
Stoner by John Williams
John Williams

The son of a midwestern farmer, William Stoner comes to the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. Stoner ...

The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis

A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and th...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontë

The Penguin English Library Edition of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë'The more solitary, the more friendless, the more u...

Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen

The Penguin English Library Edition of Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen "The more I know of the world, the more am I...

A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

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

Passenger to Frankfurt
Passenger to Frankfurt
Agatha Christie

Christie’s superb stand-alone mystery, Passenger to Frankfurt, is a true masterwork of surprise and suspense, as a dip...

The Mousetrap and Other Plays
The Mousetrap and Other Plays
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie created magnificent works of suspense for the theater, and eight of her riveting stage dramas are collec...

The Shadow on the Glass
The Shadow on the Glass
Agatha Christie

At Mr. and Mrs. Unkerton's party in Greenway's House, Mr. Satterthwaite learns of a haunted window: no matter how many t...

[Free Download] The Time Machine
[Free Download] The Time Machine
H. G. Wells

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 'Great shapes like big machines rose out of the d...

(Download PDF) Lord of the Flies
(Download PDF) Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Since it was first published in 1954, William Golding's classic debut novel has remained a stark allegory of civilizatio...

A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ...

Rosemary's Baby : Introduction
Rosemary's Baby : Introduction
Ira Levin

'The Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel' Stephen King Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor-husband, Guy, move...

Collins Classics - The Phantom of the Opera
Collins Classics - The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Look! You want to see! See! Feast yo...

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie

This collection gathers together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christie’s most famous creations: Miss Marp...

Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Agatha Christie

Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing ...

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other ...

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay facedown on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was no...

Detectives and Young Adventurers: The Complete Short Stories
Detectives and Young Adventurers: The Complete Short Stories
Agatha Christie

A bumper omnibus gathering together over 50 classic Agatha Christie stories featuring Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Harl...

Ordeal by Innocence
Ordeal by Innocence
Agatha Christie

According to the courts, Jacko Argyle bludgeoned his mother to death with a poker. The sentence was life imprisonment. B...

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Agatha Christie

One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather ...

The House of Lurking Death
The House of Lurking Death
Agatha Christie

Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to act the Great Detective Hanaud to his and Tuppenc...

The Big Four by Agatha Christie
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Framed in the doorway of Hercule Poirot’s bedroom stands an uninvited guest, coated from head to foot in dust. The man...

Tape Measure Murder
Tape Measure Murder
Agatha Christie

Miss Politt has been waiting and waiting outside Laburnum Cottage for Mrs. Spenlow, to no avail. She nervously acquires ...

Three Act Tragedy
Three Act Tragedy
Agatha Christie

Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests to sit down for dinner. For at the end of ...

They Do It with Mirrors
They Do It with Mirrors
Agatha Christie

Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her f...

Ulysses by James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce
James Joyce

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing ...

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE BY THE NOBEL-PRIZE WINNING AUTHORONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' In the s...

Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West
Blood Meridian, Or, The Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly su...

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in ...

Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning s...

The Seven Dials Mystery
The Seven Dials Mystery
Agatha Christie

A practical joke goes chillingly, murderously wrong in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The...

The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Soon to be a Prime original limited series premiering March 13, 2020, starring Rufus Sewell and Kaya Scodelario!In the c...

Murder in Mesopotamia
Murder in Mesopotamia
Agatha Christie

Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigate...

Sparkling Cyanide
Sparkling Cyanide
Agatha Christie

In Sparkling Cyanide, Agatha Christie seats six—including a murderer—around a dining table set for seven, one year ...

Peril at End House
Peril at End House
Agatha Christie

In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls...

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Raymond Carver

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since b...

Things Fall Apart #1
Things Fall Apart #1
Chinua Achebe

THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” o...

Animal Farm
Animal Farm
George Orwell

'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.'Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that ...

The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe

A classic collection From the exquisite lyric ""To Helen,"" to the immortal masterpieces ""Annabel Lee," "The Bells, ""...

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah

From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of fri...

4:50 from Paddington
4:50 from Paddington
Agatha Christie

Elspeth McGillicuddy was not a woman usually given to hallucinations. But when she witnesses what appears to be a woman ...

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of Cal...

The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library
Agatha Christie

"Colonel and Mrs. Bantry are shocked when they wake one morning to find the dead body of a young platinum blonde on the ...

A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick

Substance D -- otherwise known as Death -- is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It de...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith

The American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. This P.S. edition features an extra...

Maurice by E. M. Forster
Maurice by E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster

An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men w...

Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives
Masterpieces in Miniature: The Detectives
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the world's most popular writer in modern times and her books have only been outsold by the Bible and...

A Murder is Announced
A Murder is Announced
Agatha Christie

You are cordially invited to a murder. A personal ad in the newspaper inviting strangers to participate in an evening of...

The Secret Adversary
The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie

From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the b...

Island by Aldous Huxley
Island by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW 'One of the truly great philosophical novels' The Times For over a hundred years ...

Brave New World
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

Brave new world is a novel with a science-fiction theme written by bestselling author, aldous huxley, and was first publ...

The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco

If The Name of the Rose seems an odd choice for such critical and popular acclaim, Ecos elevation into literary supersta...

The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY JEANETTE WINTERSON AND GILLIAN BEER The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It b...

The Magus by John Fowles
The Magus by John Fowles
John Fowles

Read John Fowles's feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nichola...

The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island
The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island
Laura Lee Hope

Bert's eyes went to the labyrinth which he was so eager to finish. His heart gave a leap, and he stopped still. Over the...

The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery at School
The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery at School
Laura Lee Hope

Bert has been selected to help the school principal run a small museum at the school. But on opening day, the museum's m...

The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery at Meadowbrook
The Bobbsey Twins' Mystery at Meadowbrook
Laura Lee Hope

The Bobbsey Twins--Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie-have won millions of fans since their first adventure in 1904. Whil...

The Collector by John Fowles
The Collector by John Fowles
John Fowles

Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. A lottery win enables him to ca...

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
David Stephen Mitchell

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize A postmodern visionar...

[Free Download] The Mysterious Island
[Free Download] The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the ...

And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest gen...

The Meditations Translation by Vanessa Kimbell
The Meditations Translation by Vanessa Kimbell
Marcus Aurelius

A new translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121–180) succeeded his adopt...

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his...

Cien años de soledad
Cien años de soledad
Gabriel García Márquez

Señalada como 'catedral gótica del lenguaje', este clásico del siglo XX es el enorme y espléndido tapiz de una ya m�...

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Daphne Du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her plac...

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Miguel de Cervantes's mock-epic masterwork, Don Quixote was voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, ...

Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
Destination Unknown by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist... When a...

Parker Pyne Investigates
Parker Pyne Investigates
Agatha Christie

A collection of short stories featuring the 'heart specialist', Parker Pyne. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utt...

The Last Days of Socrates
The Last Days of Socrates
Plato

The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and d...

The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrif...

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler

Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly ...

Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The world’s most famous work of horror fiction: a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity Mary Shell...

Endless Night by Agatha Christie
Endless Night by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest...

Double Sin and Other Stories
Double Sin and Other Stories
Agatha Christie

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits....

Taken at the Flood
Taken at the Flood
Agatha Christie

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room... A few weeks after marrying an...

The Man in the Brown Suit
The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie

A young woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station, and finds herself of a ship bound for South Afr...

The Golden Ball and Other Stories
The Golden Ball and Other Stories
Agatha Christie

Is it a gesture of good will or a sinister trap that lures Rupert St. Vincent and his family to magnificent estate? How ...

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appe...

Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
Towards Zero by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house... What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a w...

The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
Stendhal

Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his li...

[Free Download] The War of the Worlds
[Free Download] The War of the Worlds
Herbert George Wells

Introduction by Arthur C. ClarkeCommentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic“No one would have ...

The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man
Herbert George Wells

Wells's masterpiece of science fiction tells the fantastic story of a scientist who creates a serum to render himself in...

A Little Princess
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is ...

Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

It was just Luke Fitzwilliam's luck to be stuck next to a dotty old woman like Miss Fullerton on the London-bound train-...

Appointment with Death
Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie

A repugnant Amercian widow is killed during a trip to Petra... Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstro...

Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will... Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the do...

Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings... First there was the m...

Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to app...

N Or M? by Agatha Christie
N Or M? by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Tommy & Tuppence are hired to track down wartime spies at a seaside resort... It is World War II, and while the RAF stru...

Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest genera...

The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis

Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any rea...

The Magician's Nephew #6
The Magician's Nephew #6
Clive Staples Lewis

Polly's hand went out to touch one of the rings. Immediately, without a flash or a noise, she vanished. When horrible Un...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision...

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac

Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally finds its way to the bi...

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Truman Capote

Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Trum...

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardc...

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Agatha Christie

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford visit the Sunny Ridge Rest Home, where an old rambling woman insists that something is buri...

Nemesis by Agatha Christie
Nemesis by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

"How pleasant to meet Miss Marple again." -"Literary Times Supplement" So pleasant in fact, she was the Anthony Award W...

The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio...

[Free Download] 2001, a Space Odyssey
[Free Download] 2001, a Space Odyssey
Arthur Charles Clarke

The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal film--and change...

The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite...

Fever Season
Fever Season
Barbara Hambly

Benjamin January made his debut in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color, a haunting mélange of histo...

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
Agatha Christie

A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, "The Harlequin Tea Set" brings together nine brilliant Christie stories th...

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas

The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Edmund Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of ...

Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino

'The Most Beautiful Of His Books Throws Up Ideas, Allusions, And Breathtaking Imaginative Insights On Almost Every Page....

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State Unive...

The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparati...

The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy PDF Download
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy PDF Download
graf Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Introduction and Notes by E.B. Greenwood, University of Kent. Anna Karenina is on...

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Angela Carter

Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, lumino...

The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proce...

Emma by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Jane Austen

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading 'To the Lighthouse' is the most autobiograph...

Steinbeck John : of Mice and Men (C20)
Steinbeck John : of Mice and Men (C20)
John Steinbeck

While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed hi...

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of...

Dubliners by James Joyce
Dubliners by James Joyce
James Joyce

Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about ...

Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes
Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant, tilts at windmills and battles with sheep in the serv...

Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Discover Dostoevsky's masterpiece. 'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a ...

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
graf Leo Tolstoy

Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude. With an Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. ...

Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker

Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. "There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed,...

The Caves of Steel
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov

New York è irriconoscibile: niente più torri e grattacieli. Al loro posto, un'immensa metropoli "coperta" che non vien...

(Download PDF) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
(Download PDF) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontë

Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Canterbury Christ Church University College. 'Jane Eyre' ranks as one of the...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Austen

Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. 'Pride and Prejudice', which opens with one of the mo...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Emily Brontë

Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. 'Wuthering Heights' is a wild, passionate story of the ...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Herman Melville

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at C...

If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino

You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But alas there is a pri...

The Odyssey
The Odyssey
Homer

With an Introduction and Notes by Adam Roberts, Royal Holloway, University of London. Homer's great epic describes the m...

The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde

"This revised Norton Critical Edition, like its predecessor, is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 L...

[Free Download] Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
[Free Download] Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies. Translation by Louis Mercier. Professor Aronnax, his fa...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Edwin Abbott Abbott

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has ...