'...it is an universal phenomenon of our nature that the mournful, the fearful, even the horrible, allures with irresistible enchantment.' Chaucer Bur......
A richly entertaining and exciting collection of mystery and detective stories from the golden age of crime fiction. This was a period when crimes wer......
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas’ celebrated foursome of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, wh......
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin,San Francisco State University Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped......
Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create ......
Washington Square marks the culmination of james'sapprentice period as a novelist.With sharply focused attention upon just four principal character,ja......
Set in an apocalyptic future ending in the year 2100, Shelley's 1826 novel concerns a plague that destroys almost all of humankind. Copyright 1993 R......
With an Introduction by Pat Righelato,University of Reading The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Fa......
Rasselas is a provocative fable about 'the choice of life'. Bored by the endless contentment of 'the happy valley' in which he has been brought up, Pr......
This selection of Lawrence's work underlines the intensity and innovation that made him one of the most distinctive and important of twentieth-century......
The Roman poet Ovid (43BC-17AD) gives an ironic and parodic twist to love poetry in his highly original and entertaining explorations of sexual desire......
May Sinclair was an innovator of modern fiction a late Victorian who was also a precursor to Virginia Woolf ln her Uncanny Stories(1993)Sinclair combi......
The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displa......
Edited with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies 'I saw something terrible rising up through the middle of the 'defence'. It rose with a steady move......
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most popular works of English fiction. Although Charlotte Brontë's heroine is outwardly plain, she pos......
内容简介Book DescriptionLawrence's uncompromisingly candid novel deals in poetic and sexually explicit language with the passionate relationship between L......
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Adam Bede was George Eliot's first full-length novel. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth centu......
Will Klein lost his brother and the love of his life on the same day. Eleven years ago Will's ex-girlfriend was found brutally murdered. The prime su......
Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. These are ba......