An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James\"s parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his two really horrible aunts, Sponge and Spiker. Poor James is miserable, until something peculiar happens and James finds himself on the most wonderful and extraordinary journey he could ever imagine......

What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka\"s famous, mysterious chocolate factory? What happens when, one by one, the children disobey Mr. Wonka\"s orders? In Dahl\"s most popular story, the nasty are punished and the good are deliciously, sumptuously rewarded....

The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce\"s novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself....

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication....

\"May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then\" Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord....

The first complete new translation for 25 years of the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature. Lady Murasaki\"s great 11th century novel is a beautifully crafted story of love, betrayal and death at the Imperial Court....

\"Vanity, not love, has been my folly\" When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind....

As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of thirty-eight, he never stopped writing poetry....

Mark Twain\"s tale of a boy\"s picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before....

One of the best novels ever written, in a chic new deluxe edition Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship....

A major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life....

Considered one the masterpieces of realist fiction, George Eliot\"s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes....

Just in time for the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic, this graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth W. Shutes, and the \\\"unsinkable\\\" Molly Brown....

A deluxe edition of Lewis Carroll\"s timeless tale of wondrously charming nonsense, in time for its 150th anniversary When Alice follows the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole, little does she know that she is traveling to a world of magic where common-sense is turned upside-down....

The culmination of Jane Austen’s genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage—now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Beautiful, clever, rich—and single—Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage....