Joint work with characters by Dickens and a plot by Collins.

A Charles Dickens Classic.

With a realism that was virtually unique in the 1830s, the pieces collected in this text encompass the life of a whole city, from the seedy gin shops of central London, its theatres, its courts, its... more »

A Charles Dickens Classic.

Seducer, spy, diplomat, writer, adventurer, one 'born for the fairer sex', chiefly remembered from his autobiography, which has established his reputation as the most famous erotic hero. Casanova's ... more »

For centuries Little Hintock has been sustained by the surrounding woodland. Now the villagers are caught up in a web of consuming emotion: the unspoken love of Mary South for Giles Winterbourne; hi... more »

As the last of Hardy's novels to be published, The Well-Beloved has generated great scholarly interest recently. Partly autobiographical, it tells the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierston, whose s... more »

In Wessex Tales, published in 1888, Hardy writes using the pastoral voice. Many of these tales are set before Hardy's birth (1840). Separating the time period of his readers from his character's liv... more »

"ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP Dickens's epic novel of freedom, love, and the burning chaos of the French Revolution. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise... more »

Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Hear... more »

It's "one for all and all for one!" as D'Artagnan and his three pals follow a course of swashbuckling intrigue and adventure in 17th-centry France.   From the Trade Paperback edition.<... more »

With their call for"simplicity, simplicity,  simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for  harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David  Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical  works ... more »

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." Ralph Waldo Emerson found it "the most extraordinary piece of wit a... more »

By 1854, when Hard Times was published, Charles Dickens' magisterial progress as a writer had come to incorporate a many-sided, coherent vision of English society, both as it was and as he wished it... more »

         Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's "bestseller," and Tess Durbeyfi... more »

A gripping and entertaining tale of terror and suspense as well as a potent Faustian allegory of hubris and science run amok, The Invisible Man endures as one of the signature stories in the ... more »

Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which H. G. Wel... more »

In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, no... more »

Introduction by Michael Slater


From the Hardcover edition.

Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan b... more »

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stingi... more »

W.E.B. Du Bois was the foremost black intellectual of his time. The Souls of Black Folk (1903), his most influential work, is a collection of fourteen beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, h... more »

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nasta... more »

At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's.  From this rather simple premise... more »