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A passionate story of the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. The story's action is chaotic and violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the descriptions of the moorland setting and the poetic grandeur combined to make this novel a masterpiece of English literature.

As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she cannot reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. This story shows the ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.

A humorous and compassionate look at the blossoming friendship between an old woman and a young man.

The wish spoken by Dorian Gray as he looks at his portrait forms the basis of the plot of this story of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty.

At Northanger Abbey Jane Austen's charmingly imperfect heroine, Catherine Morland, meets all the trappings of gothic horror and imagines the worst. Fortunately she has, at hand, her own fundamental good sense and the irresistible but unsentimental hero, Henry Tilney.

** Realistic portrait of life at that time. Tragic outcome to the inner fight between a woman's passionate nature and duty. ** Recommended by Christine

A classic novel in which young American Isabel Archer is eager to embrace life and makes her choice from the suitors who court her as she explores Europe.

This tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the novel's philosophical depths.

In the overlapping worlds of Gradgrind's schoolroom, Bounderby the humbug industrialist and Sissy Jupe of Sleary's Circus, Dickens satirises Utilitarianism, the doctrines of Samuel Smiles and the mechanisation of the mid-Victorian soul.

A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. His expectations prove to be unfounded, however, and he must return home penniless.

Anne Elliot lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars.

Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her.

Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being. This novel was first published in 1719.

Following the life of David Copperfield through sufferings and adversity, this book helps reader find many light-hearted moments in the company of a host of English fiction's stars including Mr Micawber, Traddles, Uriah Heep, Creakle, Betsy Trotwood, and the Peggoty family.

Don Quixote sets off on his travels through 16th century Spain to right wrongs and rescue damsels in distress but his adventures - such as the incident in which he mistakes windmills for giants and attacks them - are both comic and romantic. In the end he returns to his village, a dying man who still believes in heroes and is a hero himself.

Sir Brian Newcome's marriage into the aristocratic Kew family brought titled respectability to his family's 'new' money. Now the marriage of his daughter Ethel is of crucial importance to both families in their quest for further advancement.

In this fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are deflected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition.

A story of love, guilt, sin and redemption played out against the stark background of Puritan New England.

One woman in the provincial town of Middlemarch aspires to a high spiritual life, but is stifled by her environment.

A young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. This book describes the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed.

Relates the romantic exploits of a country boy in nineteenth century England as he tries to better himself through education.

When John Bold decides to challenge corruption in the Church of England he sets the whole town of Barchester ablaze with the consequences. This book is the study of conflicting loyalties and principles in a cathedral city where the gentle warden becomes an unwilling focus of national controversy.

The story of Jane Eyre, who experiences the miseries of being an orphaned child in early Victorian society, before becoming a governess at Thornfield Hall and meeting Mr Rochester. Jane shares many of Brontes' own beliefs about the position of women, arguing for a form of sexual equality.

This volume presents together all of Wilde's short stories and poems in prose, from the well-known fairy tales, such as "The Happy Prince" and "The Fisherman and His Soul" to the social parody of "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost".

Told in journal fragments that cannot provide any reliable perspective, Dracula is at the same time Romantic and modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic vampire Count Dracula, who preys on damsels, and of the mission launched from a lunatic asylum to destroy him.