'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'In a fit of...
As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother...
When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem...
'If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies' In&,nbsp,New Grub Street&,nbsp,George Gissing re-created...
",Yours is a 'spectable calling. To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in...
'O the deceitfulness of the heart of man! This John, whom I took to be the honestest of men ... this&,nbsp,very&,nbsp,fellow was all the while...
'I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people...
A nightmarish tale of religious fanaticism and darkness, this chilling classic of the macabre tells the tale of Robert Wringhim, drawn in his moral confusion...
A tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet 'A' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In...
'Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours: none wears a robe so black, none bears a rod so...
The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to...
When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her...
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a...
Offers a narrative that interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate 'hero' Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and...
Tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve,...
'At sight of him had the pink of her cheeks increased, lessened, or did it continue to cover its normal area of ground? It was...
",Why, you must take me or leave me ... You can't please your father and me both, you must choose between us", When timid...
Written with great humour, irony and honesty,&,nbsp,The Way of All Flesh&,nbsp,exploded perceptions of the Victorian middle-class family in its radical depiction of Ernest Pontifex, a...
Tells the story of Lilia Herriton, who proves to be an embarrassment to her late husband's family as, in the small Tuscan town of Monteriano,...
'She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so...