Classics

Lucy Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea

Macbeth

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell`s first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these clashes...

Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita

Russia`s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the...

Moby-Dick

With an Introduction and Notes by David Herd, Lecturer in English and American Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury and co-editor of `Poetry Review` Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab`s quest to...

Mozart’s Journey to Prague

Oliver Twist

Dickens had already achieved renown with "The Pickwick Papers". With "Oliver Twist" his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation,...

Persuasion

Peter Schlemihl

Phoenix and the Carpet, the

Pollyanna

Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Loneliness

Robert Stevenson: Treasure Island

Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book

Scarlet Letter, the

Selected Poems

Selected Stories from the 19th Century

Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies, featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, RL Stevenson,...

Shirley. Ширли

Шарлотта Бронте

Charlotte Bronte was a natural story-teller with a gift for creating memorable characters and for evoking atmosphere. The novel is set among the cloth mills of the author`s native Yorkshire and she succeeds...

Sonnets (Angiolieri)

Sonnets (Belli)

Stendhal: The Red and the Black

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff (revised by Moya Longstaffe). With an Introduction and Notes by Moya Longstaffe.The Red and the Black has been hailed as the first great `realist` novel of the nineteenth century,...

Stephen Crane: Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage is one of the greatest war novels of all time. It reports on the American Civil War through the eyes of Henry Fleming, an ordinary farm boy turned soldier. It evokes the chaos and the dull...

Supernatural Short Stories

Tales of Twilight and the Unseen