WS Gilbert January 1, 1994 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Nathaniel HawthorneIntroduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in...

Nathaniel HawthorneSet in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not...

Jack LondonThe Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez,...

Iris Murdoch When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from...

Ellis Peters This volume contains three of Brother Cadfael's Chronicles: ST PETER'S FAR. An unseemly quarrel between the local burghers and the monks from the Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury over...

Simone De BeauvoirTRANSLATED BY H.M. PARSHLEYOf all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most extensive and enduring...

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way...

Frances Hodgson Burnett Mary is an unhappy orphan forced to live in the home of a wealthy guardian - a busy man who has no time at all for her.But...

Agatha ChristieWhat is The Secret of Chimneys? A young drifter finds out when a favor for a friend pulls him into the heart of a deadly conspiracy in this captivating...

Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) always regarded novel-writing as a necessary means of making money. His vocation was poetry.Apart from his genius, the sheer scale of Hardy's achievement is extraordinary:...