Robin Hard is Tutor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading.

Features 5 of the author's best early stories: title selection plus "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkie," "Without Benefit of Clergy" and "The ...

The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scene ...

First published by Oxford University Press, 1986; first issued as a World's classics paperback, 1988; reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback ...

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 Lyon has previously edited Conrad's Youth/Heart of Darkness/The End of the Tether for Penguin Twentieth Century Classics, and novels by Henry Jam ...