Introduction and Notes by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine’s father.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster Elizabeth Gaskell’s final novel, which is widely regarded as her greatest work, follows the lives of two families in rural England during the nineteenth century. At the heart of the novel are the complex and strained relationships between family members – fathers and daughters, fathers and sons, and stepmothers...

With an Introduction by Pat Righelato, University of Reading Maisie Farange is the child of divorced parents who remarry and engage in adulterous affairs. Despite the sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupt adult world, this novel is one of Henry James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behavior of the characters on the seedy fringes of the English upper class is...

What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in What Katy Did.

What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in What Katy Did.

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 a novelist at the height of his powers.

Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James’s apprentice period as a novelist. 

With an Introduction by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude. War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon’s war with Russia.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Based on Charlotte Brontë’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. In Thackeray's , the upper-class Regency society is a bustling and raucous commercial fairground dominated by unbridled greed and materialism. The narrator, who serves as a serio-comic observer, plays a brilliantly versatile role in bringing this world to life.

"A man of genius makes no mistakes." With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery.

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Variously melancholy, lyrical, joyous and farcical, Twelfth Night has long been a popular comedy with Shakespearian audiences. The main plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love.

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is perhaps Henry James's most famous work, a timeless ghost story that takes place in a country estate. It is a haunting tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre, leaving readers on the edge of their seats.

‘Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!’ Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written.

With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson. Following on from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884-5) Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) became one of Mark Twain's most popular books.

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Considered one of the earliest and most influential novels in English literature, Tom Jones is also recognized for its humor. The protagonist, Tom Jones, is a generous yet impulsive country boy with a weakness for young women, who is under the care of a liberal Somerset squire.

Lively and mischievous, idle and brave, Tom Brown is both the typical boy of his time and the perennial hero celebrated by authors as diverse as Henry Fielding (in Tom Jones) and Alec Waugh (in The Loom of Youth).

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. This simple and haunting story captures the transcience of life and its surrounding emotions.

"There are on sea and land such men thus fortunate...or thus disdained by destiny or by the sea." Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea.

Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. Three Men in a Boat is a comedic masterpiece that has endured for over a century since its first publication in 1889. This eclectic novel has not only been translated into multiple languages, but has also been adapted for the stage, screen, television, and imitated by other...