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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Dickens's final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of...

Dracula: Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University.'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey,...

Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of...

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his 'Poop-poop-poop'...

With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury.The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is an ominous fable about the pursuit of great wealth. Readers...

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel depicts nothing less than the great clashes between capital and labour, which arose from rapid industrialisation and problems of trade in the mid-nineteenth century. But these...

Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H....

With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H....

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and The Merchant of...

With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London.Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit,...

With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the...

This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin's extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury.Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a...

Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young...

Selected, Edited and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories...

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.The Diary of a Nobody is so unassuming a work that even its author,...

With an Introduction by Dr Pamela Knights, Department of English Studies, Durham University.With this intensely moving short novel, Edith Wharton set out 'to draw life as it really was' in...

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz) and George Cruickshank.The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental,...

With an Introduction by Alex Dolby.Translation by W.H.G. Kingston.Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened...

With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English,...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull.The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of...

With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary firework display of a novella. With sparkling wit...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the...

With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain.'Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town...a cruel...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue.The Professor is Charlotte Brontes first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children.But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as...

The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down...

'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already...

Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Winter's Tale, one of Shakespeare's later romantic comedies, offers a striking and challenging mixture...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping....

'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?'So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy...

With an Introduction by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading.Translated by C.J. Hogarth.Fathers and Sons is one of the greatest nineteenth century Russian novels, and has long been acclaimed as Turgenev's...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of WestminsterGaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its...

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V and The Merchant of Venice as its...

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess of the book's brevity....

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington,...

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of...