Classics

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens & Norman Page

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth....

Martin Eden

by Jack London & Andrew Sinclair

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively...

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days....

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens & Mark Ford

When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his father’s death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him find work and to protect his mother and sister. But Ralph Nickleby proves both hard-hearted and...

Two on a Tower

by Thomas Hardy & Sally Shuttleworth

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted...

The Woodlanders

by Thomas Hardy & Patricia Ingham

‘Tis a pity to let such a girl throw herself away upon him – a thousand pities!’ When country-girl, Grace Melbury, returns home from her middle-class school, she feels she is now above her suitor, the...

Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

Henry VIII

by William Shakespeare & Stephen Orgel

With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first...

Pictures from Italy

by Charles Dickens & Kate Flint

After Martin Chuzzlewit was published in 1844, Dickens deliberately took a break from novels to travel in Italy for almost a year.  Bored by many traditional tourist sites and repelled by the greed and empty...

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins & Sandra Kemp

‘When you looked down into the stone, you looked into a yellow deep that drew your eyes into it so that they saw nothing else’

The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to...

American Notes for General Circulation

by Charles Dickens & Patricia Ingham

When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank...

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

The Sonnets

by William Shakespeare & Stephen Orgel

Together with A Lover's Complaint' and little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. Edited with an introduction by Stanley Wells. ...the most beautifully printed text available.'

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins & Matthew Sweet

Walter Hartright meets the ethereal figure of a woman in white on a moonlit road who is familiar with Limmeridge House in Cumberland, where he is to take up employment as a drawing teacher. The mystery deepens...

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy & Tony Slade

‘You are ambitious, Eustacia – no not exactly ambitious, luxurious. I ought to be of the same vein, to make you happy, I suppose’

Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and...

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe & David Blewett

'I grew as impudent a Thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cut-Purse was'

Born and abandoned in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders is forced to make her own way in life.  She duly embarks on a career that includes...

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Timeof Sherlock Holmes

by Michael Sims

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An exclusive collection-the first- ever gathering of rogues from the gaslight era

collected here for the first time: the best crime fiction from the gaslight era....

The Time Machine: Winner of the Cover Design Challenge on Work of Art: The Next Great Artist by Bravo

by Anonymous

See all the book covers by contestants on Bravo's "Work of Art"—and rate them—at Bravotv.com.

When a Victorian scientist propels himself thousands of years into the future, he finds peace and beauty—and...

Dr. Wortle's School

by Anthony Trollope & Mick Imlah

Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her American first husband appears at the school...

Mysteries

by Knut Hamsun & Sverre Lyngstad

Mysteries (1892) is the story of Johan Nilsen Nagel, a mysterious stranger who suddenly turns up in a small Norwegian town one summer-and just as suddenly disappears. Nagel is a complete outsider, a sort of...