In Bath, Catherine Morland meets Henry, a suitor and a fellow devotee of Gothic novels who invites her to his family home, Northanger Abbey. Ruins, locked doors, dark corridors… how could she refuse?

In her new translation of Kafka’s masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa’s grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment.

The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. 

Renowned for its comical set pieces, Don Quixote is a profound meditation on the relationship between truth and fiction and the morality of deception, as well as the foundation stone of the modern novel.

Complete and unabridged. In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Charles Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. 

This edition contains notes and extra material for young readers including a section on ‘Great Fictional Detectives’ and a test yourself quiz

Madame Bovary is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856.

George Eliot’s most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community.