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Traumatized by an accident which 'involved something falling from the sky' and leaves him eight a...

This Side of Paradise charts the life of Amory Blaine, an ambitious young man loosely based on Fi...

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able t...

The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - live in financial hardship in New England with t...

An enigmatic countess is tormented by a dark secret. An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, falls...

We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirem...

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is ...

Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a b...

When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previ...

Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and beco...

Phaedrus - a character familiar to readers of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' - is sa...

Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But whe...

The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the w...

The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an ...

What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the ri...

One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr...

After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose h...

A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voy...

While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American coup...

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wre...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelo...

The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their pass...

The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to ...

Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of th...

Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print,...

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the...

After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for...

Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childh...

In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medic...

After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from thewaves by a passing ship an...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelo...

When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about hi...

The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. Bu...

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters - the artless Lottie Wilkins, the piou...

One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagoni...

Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an...

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in banda...

An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Fl...

Three years have passed since the events narrated in Little Women, and the four March sisters are...

Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological ...

The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was a...

A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investi...

During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three ...

As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets' Corner, is he...

For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and ...

As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she imm...

Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of h...