Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago,...
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all...
'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance...
'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money'Son of a bankrupt...
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Every Species is a Masterpiece brings together some of Edward O. Wilson's...
'Kissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?'...
Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction,...
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want...
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new...
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of...
'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...
'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...