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The March sisters are among the most beloved characters in children's literature, and Little Men picks up the story of fiery, headstrong Jo where Little Women left off.

Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairytale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there.

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A House for Mr Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging.

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In the second novel of James's celebrated late period, American Lambert Strether is sent to Paris on behalf of Mrs Newsome, his fiancée, to collect her son, Chad. When Strether finds Chad, he discovers an altered man and becomes introduced to a free and unconventional style of life that soon intoxicates him. His views begin to change, the morality of Woollett, his hometown, becomes foreign, and the ¿ambassador' loses sight of his mission... Pa...

Fanny Hill, one of the most popular novels of the 18th century, traces the rise of its heroine from prostitution to middle-class respectability.

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A masterpiece of gothic fiction, The Monk is a cautionary tale of madness, horror, lust and despair.

Rabindranath Tagore, India's foremost writer and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for literature, is perhaps best known for his tender and passionate tales about human yearning and longing. Here then is a collection of eighteen short stories that highlight Tagore's profound vision.

Former government minister Ralph Singh is the perpetual outsider: displaced, disillusioned and now living in exile, Ralph reflects on his earlier life and the searing effects of colonialism.

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¿I know for sure that if I had two or three secure years for this novel... I would write a work that they would talk about for a hundred years.' So said Dostoyevsky as he struggled to bring The Idiot into existence, and sure enough it has lasted longer than the hundred years he predicted. In his creation of Prince Myshkin, The Idiot, a character seeking perfection and yet fraught with ambiguity, Dostoyevsky anticipated the universal metaphysic...

Washington Square tells the poignant and gently comic story of Catherine Sloper, a sweet and unassuming young heiress, and her fortune-seeking suitor Morris Townsend.

War threatens the rich, green fields of Wessex in Hardy's historical novel, The Trumpet-Major.

An introduction to one of the most important periods in European history. It presents the implacable Robespierre, the frightened Marie Antoinette and the iconic image of the guillotine. It also demonstrates the key role the Revolution played in the development of European politics.

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