Classic Fiction

An account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great…

Love (Stendhal)

Flaubert's meticulous approach to the craft of fiction, his portrayal of contemporary reality, his representation of an unforgettable cast of characters make Madame Bovary one of the major landmarks of modern fiction.

Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)

Madame Bovary (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Gustave Flaubert)

Madame Bovary (vintage Classics Europeans Series)

In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works

Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Clas

Middlemarch (George Eliot)

Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy.

Moby-dick (Herman Melville)

Moby-dick (Herman Melville)

Moby-dick (Herman Melville)

Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives are interwoven with hers gradually reveal the characters of the central…