Classics We of the Never-Never Aenaes Gunn First published in 1908, this Australian classic has been a favourite for generations Find out more Power Without Glory Frank Hardy In the history of Australian literature, few books have been so controversial Find out more Great Expectations Charles Dickens Dickens' classic work of Victorian literature Find out more Les Miserables Victor Hugo Victor Hugo's epic take of injustice, heroism and love is a timeless classic, not to be missed Find out more The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald's magnum opus set on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922 Find out more Five on a Treasure Island (The Famous Five #1) Enid Blyton The very first Famous Five adventure! Find out more Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Jane Austen's classic novel of manners Find out more Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The classic novel of the destructive force of jealousy and vengeance Find out more Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte The novel that shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman's search for equality and freedom Find out more Persuasion Jane Austen Austen's portrayal of the double-edged nature of persuasion and the clash between old and new worlds Find out more Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The tragic story of a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder Find out more Little Women Louisa May Alcott This lively portrait of nineteenth- century family life possesses a lasting vitality that has endeared it to generations of readers Find out more Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Startlingly original and experimental, the Alice books provide readers with a double window on both child and adult worlds Find out more War and Peace Leo Tolstoy An epic portrait of ordinary life amid extraordinary circumstances Find out more Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The epic story of love and self-destruction Find out more Middlemarch George Eliot A moving story of men and women longing to do the right thing, but making bad decisions Find out more Emma Jane Austen Austen's classic novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance Find out more Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad A powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism Find out more David Copperfield Charles Dickens The novel Dickens regarded as his 'favourite child' and considered his most autobiographical Find out more Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy With its powerful criticism of Victorian sexual hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles shocked readers on publication Find out more Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson A thrilling coming-of-age novel about bravery, adventure, good and evil Find out more The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas Inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment Find out more A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Dickens' classic has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, Find out more Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success Find out more Black Beauty Anna Sewell Anna Sewell's moving story is one of the best-loved animal adventures ever written Find out more A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Described by Dickens as 'the best story I have written', A Tale of Two Cities interweaves thrilling historical drama with heartbreaking personal tragedy Find out more The Woman in White Wilkie Collins The first and greatest of the bestselling Victorian thrillers known as 'sensation novels' Find out more Ulysses James Joyce 'Everybody knows now that Ulysses is the greatest novel of the century.' Anthony Burgess Find out more Bleak House Charles Dickens Dickens's most enigmatic and masterly novel; a savage, blackly comic indictment of a legal system that devours the innocent and a society that is rotten to the core Find out more Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas, this is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time Find out more Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome Depicts the changing world of Victorian England – from the rise of a new mass-culture of tabloids and bestselling novels to crazes for daytripping and bicycling. Find out more Dracula Bram Stoker A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality Find out more The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens At the height of its popularity The Pickwick Papers sold 40,000 copies a month and catapulted the 24 year old Dickens to fame Find out more Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Hardy's last novel provoked outrage and was even burned in public when it was published in 1895 Find out more The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy The moving, humane tragedy of a deeply flawed and self-destructive man Find out more The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde A story of evil, debauchery, and scandal, Oscar Wilde's only novel tells of Dorian Gray, a beautiful yet corrupt man Find out more Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray Thackeray's epic adventure is a searing portrayal of men and women at their most vulnerable Find out more The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The best-loved case of legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Watson Find out more The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov Considered one of the best novels of the 20th century, and the foremost of Soviet satires Find out more The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan The first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations Find out more All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque The definitive novel of the First World War: an unflinching, yet heartbreakingly beautiful evocation of the horrors of the trenches Find out more The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction Find out more Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence's great autobiographical novel paints a provocative portrait of an artist torn between affection for his mother and desire for two beautiful women Find out more Oliver Twist Charles Dickens he classic story of a young boy who seeks his fortune on the streets of London Find out more Silas Marner George Eliot This story of an isolated man who learns to open his heart, was George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combining humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism Find out more Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Jane Austen's moving depiction of wild emotions and bitterly suppressed feelings tells the tale of two sisters Find out more Mansfield Park Jane Austen Mansfield Park is a subtle, moving examination of the contrast between superficial charm and true integrity Find out more Northanger Abbey Jane Austen The story of naïve, charming Catherine Morland, who is obsessed with reading Gothic romance and horror Find out more Hamlet William Shakespeare Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play Find out more The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The first collection of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson's adventures feautures twelve mysteries Find out more The Odyssey Homer Literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life - an ageless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. Find out more The Iliad Homer One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War Find out more The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories Jack London Jack London's classic tale of a sled dog set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush Find out more Maurice E.M. Forster A tale of same-sex love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays, through university and beyond Find out more The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum One of the true classics of American literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has stirred the imagination of young and old alike for over four generations. Find out more The Birds & Other Stories Daphne Du Maurier "How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell, but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew . . ." Find out more What Katy Did Susan Coolidge 'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out' Find out more The Happy Prince and Other Stories Oscar Wilde A haunting, magical fairy tale collection Find out more Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee A new novel from the author of To Kill A Mockingbird. Find out more Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare One of Shakespeare's earliest and most reviled works. Find out more The One Hundred and One Dalmatians Dodie Smith 'Horrid little beasts. I shall like you so much better when you're skins instead of pups.' Find out more Frankenstein Mary Shelley The original gothic horror literary classic. Find out more Casino Royale Ian Fleming "Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles." Find out more A Tale Dark and Grimm Adam Gidwitz Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm (and Grimm-inspired) fairy tales. Find out more The Turn of the Screw 'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale.' – Oscar Wilde Find out more The Young Desire It Kenneth Mackenzie An Australian classic Find out more Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens "I shall never regret doing as I have – never, if I starve or beg in consequence." Find out more Heidi Johanna Spyri Come and explore the Swiss mountains with Heidi! Find out more The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford A Tale of Passion. Find out more To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse is at once an intensely autobiographical and universally moving masterpiece. Find out more Revolutionary Road Richard Yates Vintage Classics Find out more A Farewell To Arms Ernest Hemingway Vintage Classics Find out more The Thin Red Line James Jones Vintage Classics Find out more The Cruel Sea Nicholas Monsarrat Classics of War Find out more Reunion Fred Uhlman Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be discovered. Find out more Austerlitz W.G. Sebald A haunting novel of post-war Europe Find out more Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence A Penguin Classic Find out more Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Penguin Modern Classics Find out more Fear of Flying Erica Jong Find out more Little Birds Anais Nin Penguin Modern Classics Find out more A Month of Sundays John Updike Penguin Modern Classics Find out more Eat Me Linda Jaivin Text Classics Find out more The Moonstone Wilkie Collins Teasing, tortuous and utterly gripping. The Moonstonewas hailed by T.S Eliot as the first and best modern English detective novels Find out more The House of Mirth Edith Wharton scathing portrayal of the world's wealthy and the prison that marriage can become. Find out more Dr Zhivago Boris Pasternak An epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told Find out more Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Anne Tyler A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists Find out more The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 'D'Artagnan lunged at him with such a furious thrust that, if he had not made a quick leap backwards, he would probably have joked for the last time' Find out more The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore a love story and a novel of political awakening Find out more Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie A classic Hercule Poirot mystery Find out more Moby Dick Herman Melville A Vintage Classic Find out more Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston Modern Classics Find out more Butterfield 8 John O'Hara A powerful New York novel Find out more Sophie's Choice William Styron Vintage War Find out more The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe An outrageous, kaleidoscopic venture into the dark heart of New York City Find out more A Time To Be Born Dawn Powell Pre-WW2 New York like you've never seen before Find out more Bright Lights, Big City Jay McInerney The famous novel that propelled young McInerney to fame Find out more Slaves of New York Tama Janowitz Reissued edition Find out more The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie May Gibbs 100th Anniversary Edition Find out more The Magic Pudding Norman Lindsay 100th Anniversary Edition Find out more
