This novel is Lawrence's semi-autobiographical masterpiece in which he explores emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. Lawrence's novels are p...

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimis...

Guy de Maupassant is a master of the short story. This collection reflects his remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, and range from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. With a simplicity of style that masks complex philos...

Written in the fourteenth century and long established as a classic of English devotional literature, The Cloud of Unknowing is an invitation to enter into a place of spiritual darkness, a place where the individual assiduously works at a loving and ...

Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion

The story of Edmond Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance,...

Sir Willoughby Patterne, rich, fashionable and fatuous, is The Egoist. He pursues three women, each more discerning than he, with little thought for anything but fulfillment of his own desires and the gratification of his own vanity that will come f...

When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activities to suit the next transmission. The Forsyte Saga...