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  • The Portable Hawthorne by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The Portable Hawthorne

    The Portable Hawthorne includes writings from each major stage in the career of Nathaniel Hawthorne: a number of his most intriguing early tales, all of The Scarlet Letter, excerpts from his three subsequently published romances--The House of Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The...
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  • A Country Doctor by Jewett, Sarah Orne
    Sarah Orne Jewett

    A Country Doctor

    A hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewett's story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward...
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  • The Man Within by Greene, Graham
    Graham Greene

    The Man Within

    "Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature..." --John le Carré Graham Greene's first published novel tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has...
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  • The Portable Graham Greene by Greene, Graham
    Graham Greene

    The Portable Graham Greene

    In his essays, criticism, screenplays, autobiography, and novels, Graham Greene explored a territory located somewhere on the border between despair and faith, treachery and love. This cross-section of Greene's work was originally selected with the author's help in 1973 and has now been extensively...
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  • The Portable Henry James by James, Henry
    Henry James

    The Portable Henry James

    Henry James wrote with an imperial elegance of style, whether his subjects were American innocents or European sophisticates, incandescent women or their vigorous suitors. His omniscient eye took in the surfaces of cities, the nuances of speech, dress, and manner, and, above all, the...
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  • Zazie in the Metro by Queneau, Raymond
    Raymond Queneau

    Zazie in the Metro

    Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon...
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  • The Confusions of Young Torless by Musil, Robert
    Robert Musil

    The Confusions of Young Torless

    At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets --Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini--rift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. For more than seventy years,...
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  • Just So Stories by Kipling, Rudyard
    Rudyard Kipling

    Just So Stories

    A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is edited with an introduction by Judith Plotz and a general preface by series editor Jan Montefiore....
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  • The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
    Arnold Bennett

    The Old Wives' Tale

    First published in 1908, The Old Wives' Tale affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters--shy, retiring Constance and defiant, romantic Sophia--over the course of nearly half a century. Bennett traces the sisters' lives from childhood in...
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  • The Country of the Blind and Other Stories by Wells, H. G.
    H. G. Wells

    The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

    Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary...
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  • The Aspern Papers and Other Tales by James, Henry
    Henry James

    The Aspern Papers and Other Tales

    A wonderful new selection of Henry James's short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra. This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all focussing the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern...
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  • Tales from the Decameron by Boccaccio, Giovanni
    Giovanni Boccaccio

    Tales from the Decameron

    Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes...
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  • The Good Apprentice by Murdoch, Iris
    Iris Murdoch

    The Good Apprentice

    Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death. Edward searches for redemption...
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  • Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John
    John Dos Passos

    Three Soldiers

    Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. Three Soldiers portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk...
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  • Selected Stories by Lardner, Ring
    Ring Lardner

    Selected Stories

    This collection brings together twenty-one of Lardner's best pieces, including the six Jack Keefe stories that comprise You Know Me, Al, as well as such familiar favorites as "Alibi Ike," "Some Like Them Cold," and "Guillible's Travels." For more than seventy years, Penguin has...
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  • Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri by Regal, Martin
    Martin Regal

    Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri

    These sagas recount fierce feuds in which honour is fought for, sacrifice is demanded, and blood is shed. The fate of the characters at the centre of each saga, however, is very different. Gisli is a traditional Viking-age hero who is determined to exact...
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  • Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings by Pushkin, Alexander
    Alexander Pushkin

    Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings

    Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed. The Tales of Belkin, his...
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  • Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company by Multatuli
    Multatuli

    Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company

    One of the most forceful indictments of colonialism ever written and a masterpiece of Dutch literature, in an esteemed translation by an award-winning translator Max Havelaar--a Dutch civil servant in Java--burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on...
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  • The Satyricon/Seneca, the Apocolocyntosis by Petronius
    Petronius

    The Satyricon/Seneca, the Apocolocyntosis

    Perhaps the strangest--and most strikingly modern--work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility. Here Petronius brilliantly brings to life the courtesans, legacy-hunters, pompous professors and dissolute priestesses...
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  • Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Diderot, Denis
    Denis Diderot

    Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

    Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was among the greatest writers of the Enlightenment, and in Jacques the Fatalist he brilliantly challenged the artificialities of conventional French fiction of his age. Riding through France with his master, the servant Jacques appears to act as though he is...
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  • The Tales of Hoffmann by Hoffman, Ernst Theodor
    E. T. a. Hoffmann

    Tales of Hoffmann

    A lawyer by day and a creator of a world of fantasy by night, Hoffman (1776-1822) lived a Jekyll and Hyde existence. Many of the characters in his stories are subject to a similar split personality. The duality of his nature is frequently reflected...
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  • The Marquise of O and Other Stories by Kleist, Heinrich Von
    Heinrich Von Kleist

    The Marquise of O and Other Stories

    The late stories by an influential writer of singular talent Between 1799, when he left the Prussian Army, and his suicide in 1811, Kleist developed into a writer of unprecedented and tragically isolated genius. This collection of works from the last period of his...
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  • The Gods Will Have Blood by France, Anatole
    Anatole France

    The Gods Will Have Blood

    A Penguin Classic It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are fighting for bread in the streets. In a Paris swept by fear and hunger lives Gamelin, a...
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  • Bouvard and Pecuchet: With the Dictionary of Received Ideas by Flaubert, Gustave
    Gustave Flaubert

    Bouvard and Pecuchet: Bouvard and Pecuchet: With the Dictionary of Received Ideas

    Bouvard and P cuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880,...
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  • Bel-Ami by Maupassant, Guy De
    Guy de Maupassant

    Bel-Ami

    Young, attractive and very ambitious, George Duroy, known to his friends as Bel-Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on La Vie francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities...
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  • The Nun by Diderot, Denis
    Denis Diderot

    The Nun

    In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause c駘鐫re of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, in an affectionate attempt to trick his friend, Diderot created this...
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  • The Black Sheep by De Balzac, Honore
    Honoré de Balzac

    The Black Sheep

    His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honoré de Balzac's The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics. Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and...
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  • A Harlot High and Low by De Balzac, Honore
    Honoré de Balzac

    A Harlot High and Low

    Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which introduces the satanic genius Vautrin, one of the greatest villains in world literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading...
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  • The Book of the Courtier by Castiglione, Baldesar
    Baldesar Castiglione

    The Book of the Courtier

    'The courtier has to imbue with grace his movements, his gestures, his way of doing things and in short, his every action'In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues...
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  • Tristan: With the Surviving Fragments of the 'Tristan of Thomas' by Strassburg, Gottfried Von
    Gottfried Von Strassburg

    Tristan: With the Surviving Fragments of the 'Tristan of Thomas'

    One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan, written in the early thirteenth century, is based on a medieval love story of grand passion and deceit. By slaying a dragon, the young prince Tristan wins the beautiful Isolde's hand in marriage for...
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  • Eugenie Grandet
    Honoré de Balzac

    Eugenie Grandet

    Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife...
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  • A Hazard of New Fortunes by Howells, William Dean
    William Dean Howells

    A Hazard of New Fortunes

    Set against a vividly depicted background of fin de si馗le New York, this novel centers on the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary-a conflict in which a man of goodwill futilely attempts to act as a mediator, only to be...
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  • Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: And Other Tales of New York by Crane, Stephen
    Stephen Crane

    Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: And Other Tales of New York

    "A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago." --Alfred Kazin Maggie, a powerful exploration of the destructive forces that underlie urban society and human nature, produced a scandal when it was first published...
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  • Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: And Other Stories by Bierce, Ambrose
    Ambrose Bierce

    Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories

    Questing after Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces, Ambrose Bierce rode into Mexico in 1913 and was never seen again. He left behind him theDevil's Dictionary and a remarkable body of short fiction.This new collection gathers some of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War...
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  • Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, J. Sheridan
    Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

    Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh

    Sheridan Le Fanu's most celebrated novel In Uncle Silas, Maud Ruthyn, the young, na?e heroine, is plagued by Madame de la Rougierre from the moment the enigmatic older woman is hired as her governess. A liar, bully, and spy, when Madame leaves the house,...
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  • Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
    Catharine Maria Sedgwick

    Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

    Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women. For more...
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  • Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George
    George Eliot

    Scenes of Clerical Life

    George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE appeared in 'Blackwood's Magazine' in 1857. These stories contain Eliot's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her great novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in...
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  • The Law and the Lady by Collins, Wilkie
    Wilkie Collins

    The Law and the Lady

    Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name,...
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  • Two on a Tower by Hardy, Thomas
    Thomas Hardy

    Two on a Tower

    In this tale of star-crossed love, Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an...
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  • Dr. Wortle's School by Trollope, Anthony
    Anthony Trollope

    Dr. Wortle's School

    Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed...
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  • Mary; Maria; Matilda by Wollstonecraft, Mary
    Mary Wollstonecraft

    Mary; Maria; Matilda

    These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In...
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  • The Prime Minister by Trollope, Anthony
    Anthony Trollope

    The Prime Minister

    Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at...
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  • Sketches by Boz by Dickens, Charles
    Charles Dickens

    Sketches by Boz

    Charles Dickens's first book, complete with all the pathos and comic invention of his later masterpieces Published under the pen-name 'Boz', Charles Dickens's first book Sketches by Boz (1836) heralded an exciting new voice in English literature. This richly varied collection of observation, fancy...
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  • Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works by Behn, Aphra
    Aphra Behn

    Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works

    When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for...
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  • Castle Rackrent and Ennui by Edgeworth, Maria
    Maria Edgeworth

    Castle Rackrent and Ennui

    Thady Quirk, devoted steward to the decaying estate of the Rackrent family, narrates a riotous story of four generations of a dying dynasty in Castle Rackrent (1800). Thady will defend his masters to the end, but eventually his naivety and blind loyalty cause him...
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  • Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel
    Daniel Defoe

    Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

    Daniel Defoe's bawdy tale of a woman's struggle for independence and redemption, Moll Flanders is edited with an introduction and notes by David Blewett in Penguin Classics. Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll Flanders' drive to find and hold on...
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  • The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry
    Henry James

    The Spoils of Poynton

    Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, and perhaps eventually share, Mrs Gereth's passion for her 'things' - the antique treasures she has amassed at Poynton Park in the south...
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  • Roderick Hudson by James, Henry
    Henry James

    Roderick Hudson

    When wealthy Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius, and is equally entranced by the sculptor's beauty, spirit and charisma. Wishing to give the impoverished artist the opportunity to develop...
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  • The Princess Casamassima by James, Henry
    Henry James

    The Princess Casamassima

    The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a...
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  • The Vicar of Wakefield by Goldsmith, Oliver
    Oliver Goldsmith

    The Vicar of Wakefield

    When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the estate of Squire Thornhill. Taking to the road...
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Fiction Classics Books

Fiction Classics Books is a remarkable collection that brings together timeless literary works from various genres of fiction. This collection encompasses an extensive range of novels, short stories, and plays that have stood the test of time and continue to captivate readers worldwide.

The collection showcases a diverse array of literary masterpieces from different periods and cultures. It includes iconic works from renowned authors such as Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and many more. From the romantic intrigues of Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" to the thought-provoking symbolism of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," these books have become cornerstones of literary history.

Fiction Classics Books offers readers a chance to explore a multitude of genres, including romance, mystery, adventure, science fiction, and historical fiction. Each work presents a unique narrative that transports readers to different worlds and eras, allowing them to delve into captivating stories and explore complex characters that have become classics in their own right.

In addition to the wide range of genres, Fiction Classics Books offers something for readers of all ages and backgrounds. The collection includes books suitable for young readers, such as Lewis Carroll's whimsical "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," as well as profound and thought-provoking novels like George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, "1984."

Regardless of literary preferences, Fiction Classics Books is an invaluable collection for any avid reader or lover of literature. It not only presents an opportunity to appreciate the works of esteemed authors but also provides a gateway into understanding the cultural and social contexts in which these books were written. Through Fiction Classics Books, readers can embark on literary journeys that span centuries and continents. Whether one seeks adventure, romance, tragedy, or simply a thought-provoking read, this collection has it all. These books have endured the test of time, captivating generation after generation, and continue to inspire readers to explore and appreciate the world of fiction.

Popular Fiction Classics Books

The fiction classics book collection offers a wide array of timeless and popular books that have captivated readers for generations. These books have stood the test of time, enchanting readers with their compelling narratives, vivid characters, and thought-provoking themes. From celebrated authors to renowned literary treasures, here are some of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics collection:

1. "Pride and Prejudice"
2. "Moby-Dick"
3. "To Kill a Mockingbird"
4. "1984"
5. "The Great Gatsby"
6. "Jane Eyre"
7. "The Catcher in the Rye"
8. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" 

These are just a few examples of the popular books you can find within the fiction classics book collection. Each one offers a unique perspective on the human experience and continues to captivate readers with their enduring relevance and literary brilliance. Whether you are a dedicated fan of classic literature or new to this genre, these books will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression.

Popular Fiction Classics Authors

The world of literature is enriched with countless authors who have gifted us with timeless stories and unforgettable characters. Within the realm of fiction classics, there are several authors whose contributions to literature have left an indelible mark. Here, we explore some of the most popular authors of the book collections 'fiction classics books'.

1. Jane Austen
2. Charles Dickens
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Mark Twain
6. Charlotte Brontë
7. George Orwell
8. Emily Brontë

These authors have made invaluable contributions to literature by crafting stories that have stood the test of time. Their keen observations of society, complex characterizations, and exploration of universal themes continue to resonate with readers around the globe, making their books a cherished part of any fiction classics collection. 

The fiction classics collection at White Rain Book House encapsulates the timeless tales that have shaped literature and captivated readers for generations. From the enchanting worlds of Jane Austen to the thrilling adventures of Jules Verne, this collection offers a treasure trove of literary gems that will transport readers to different eras and immerse them in unforgettable narratives.

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