Jules Verne (1828–1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on ‚extraordinary voyages.‘ His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers to look to the industrial future rather than the remote past for their drea ..

Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging ..

Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals with the highly disturbing effects ..

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers and the civ ..

With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. This selection of a hundred of O. Henry's succinct tales displays the range, humour and humanity of a perennially popular short-story writer. Here Henry gives a richly colourful and exube ..

‚As a man loved a woman, that was how I loved…It was good, good, good…‘ Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents – a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective ..

Jules Verne (1828–1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations o ..

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up ‚dead souls‘. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain ..

The House of the Dead is a stark account of Dostoyevsky's own experience of penal servitude in Siberia.In graphic detail he describes the suffering of the convicts – their squalor and degradation, their terror and resignation, from the rampages of ..

The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories.Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish ..

To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels.It is based on her own early experiences, and while it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires, it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relations ..

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, st ..