Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible government written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue ...

One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds ...

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, ...

Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as `the life of anybody'. The Waves (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven f ...

"Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of ...

A cyclone hits Kansas and whirls away Dorothy to the magical land of Oz, where she befriends the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. To ...

Presents two classic novels about the misadventures of a group of friends by nineteenth-century English author Jerome K. Jerome, and includes textual ...

A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, To the Lighthouse is the most accomplished of all Woolf's ...

Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. Attacked at the time as `A mot ...

The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners ...