From the author of countless esteemed classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, , Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court follows an American engineer named Hank Morgan.
Daniel Deronda is a goodhearted man who's often occupied with the struggles of others including the selfish Gwendolen Harleth and the young runaway, Mirah Lapidoth.
Over the span of a century, the Pontifex family is populated by manipulative and domineering characters attempting to control the fate of the next generation.
"e;I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.
Set as the sequel to the classic American novel by Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has earned its rightful place as an icon in literary history.
Young Candide is ejected from his idyllic life in a protected castle and finds himself encountering wild adventures and harsh trials that put to the test his teacher's claim that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
Gulliver's strange adventures in some of the most unusual lands ever imagined have made this one of the rare classics with an enduring and wide-ranging appeal to all ages.
One of the most irrepressible and exuberant characters in the history of literature, Tom Sawyer explodes onto the page in a whirl of bad behaviour and incredible adventures.
The inspiration behind James by Percival Everett, shortlisted for the Booker PrizeNostalgic and melancholy in equal measure, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a razor-sharp satire of the antebellum South that, despite beginning life as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is now seen in its own right as one of the most important of all American novels.
When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground.
With psychological insight and sparkling wit, Jane Austen paints an irresistibly lifelike portrait of shifting values and split loyalties in Mansfield Park.
It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years.
From the author of Cultural Amnesia, beloved writer, poet and broadcaster Clive James, The Remake is a satirical story of astronomy, celebrity and a certain sort of romance .
The multi-million-copy number one bestsellerOne of The Sunday Times's top 100 bestselling books of the past 50 yearsWelcome to Bridget's first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive.
'Lisa Owens is a comedy genius' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals'Laugh-out-loud funny' Observer'Insanely funny but also moving and true' Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall'A deadpan comic debut for the procrastination generation' GuardianNow and again we all lie awake wondering what on earth we're doing with our lives .
