Classic Novels

Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic Pride and Prejudice... When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099511151 • Author:  Jane Austen • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  368 • Dimensions: 13.1 x 19.7 x 2.4 cm

Read F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel about love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, he longs only for Daisy Buchanan.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099541530 • Author:   F Scott Fitzgerald  • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  160 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 0.99 x 19.69 cm

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantès spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon.  When his daring escape plan works, he uses all he has learnt during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those he holds responsible for his fate. No longer the naïve sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress all those years ago, he reinvents himself as the charming, mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo...  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099518945 • Author:  Alexandre Dumas • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  1472 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 5.33 x 20.32 cm

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set against the backdrop of Russian high society. Tolstoy charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball. Although she initially resists his charms Anna eventually succumbs, falling passionately in love and setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her downfall.   Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099540663 • Author:  Leo Tolstoy, Louise Shanks Maude & Aylmer Maude • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  963 • Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.6 x 4.4 cm

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! When the East Wind blows Mary Poppins into the home of the Banks children, their lives go topsy-turvy and are changed forever. More than eighty years since we first met Mary Poppins, this original, classic story is still charming readers and transporting new fans into the mysterious world of everyone's favourite magical nanny. Product Information:• ISBN: 9780007286416• Author: P.L. Travers• Publisher: Harper Collins• Format: Paperback• Pages: 200• Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1cm

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him to thousands of people determined to kill him. But the enemy above is not Yossarian's problem - it is his own army intent on keeping him airborne, and the maddening 'Catch-22' that allows for no possibility of escape.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099470465 • Author:  Joseph Heller • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  519 • Dimensions: 13.2 x 19.8 x 3.3 cm

Emily Brontë's novel remains a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion... the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099511595 • Author:  Emily Brontë • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  368 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.21 x 20.32 cm

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels... Product Information:• ISBN: 9780099289821• Author: Ernest Hemingway• Publisher: Vintage• Format: Paperback• Pages: 490• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3cm

Discover Dickens's most influential book and one of the world’s favourite Christmas reads. Ebenezer Scrooge despises Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some bitter truths about his choices.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099529736 • Author:  Charles Dickens  • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  352 • Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm

Beecher Stowe’s vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America. When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slaves, and Uncle Tom finds himself the property of a cruel plantation owner, fighting for his freedom and ultimately, for his right to live. With a rich narrative and wonderfully realised characters, this is a panoramic, incredibly accomplished work. Originally published to much acclaim in 1852, it quickly established Harriet Beecher Stowe as one of America’s most influential female novelists and was crucial in helping to secure the abolition of slavery. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780099595830 • Author:  Harriet Beecher Stowe • Publisher:  Vintage Classics • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  512 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm