Classics

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shake...

TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a princip...

From global literary superstar Karl Ove Knausgaard, an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and love letters addressed directly to K...

Controversial, scandalous, erudite and funny, Ulysses is undisputedly a landmark of twentieth-century modernism. It charts one day - 16th June 1904...

Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her venge...

A 20th century classic, The Prophet is thought-provoking, comforting and wise, and its simple truths remain compelling and rewarding to this day....

Sense and Sensibility is the story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of "civilized" society and t...

Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist, Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to rej...

Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, this new translation of Madame Bovary includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Flaubert's life ...

*THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC - ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of t...

Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett.Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-gr...

Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils, is a dark masterpiece that evokes a world where the lines between and good and evil long ago bec...

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is...

**AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4**Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it....

Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual enlightenment, with an introduction by Paulo CoehloSiddhartha is perhaps the most i...

A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthral readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, the Penguin M...

When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unl...

Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells him the story of h...

Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series...

Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers ar...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Howard J. Booth, University of Kent at Canterbury. ‘When you have experienced Sons and Lovers you have lived through ...

If you enjoyed the Time Machine, you might like The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr Moreau, all published under the Alma Cla...

With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent   Candide (1759) is a bright, colourful literary fir...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.   In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a dou...