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George Eliot’s panoramic masterpiece — widely regarded as the greatest novel in English, tracing the aspirations and disappointments of a whole Midlands community in the 1830s. Dorothea Brooke and a cast of fully realised humanity: the novel at its greatest extent, in a Wordsworth Classics edition.

The first modern novel and one of literature’s greatest achievements — Cervantes’s knight errant tilting at windmills in a parody that becomes a profound meditation on fiction, reality, and idealism. Four hundred years old and never less than contemporary: an essential work for every serious reader.

William Faulkner’s formally ambitious masterpiece — three narrative strands exploring race, religion, and the crushing weight of the Southern past. Joe Christmas, Lena Grove, and Reverend Hightower: characters whose stories interweave into one of the great American novels of the twentieth century.

Mark Twain’s subversive Victorian parody — brief, deadpan, and delightfully undermining adult hypocrisy through the form of improving literature for children. A small gem of American humour, illustrated in this Chronicle Books edition with fresh visual life.

Jane Austen’s most challenging and morally serious novel — Fanny Price’s quiet virtue tested against the theatrics and moral failures of Mansfield Park. A deliberate choice of stillness over wit, it raises questions about performance, wealth, and integrity that still generate fierce debate.

The twelve original Sherlock Holmes short stories — from A Scandal in Bohemia to The Speckled Band — collected in a beautiful new edition. Conan Doyle’s genius created the template for detective fiction and a character whose method of reasoning remains as thrilling as ever.

Jane Austen’s posthumous masterpiece — the most emotionally mature and moving of her novels, about second chances and recovering what was lost. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth’s rediscovery of each other is one of literature’s most quietly devastating love stories.

Jane Austen’s brilliant first novel — the Dashwood sisters embodying passion and restraint, and the wisdom required to navigate between them. Sharp, funny, and emotionally true, a portrait of two women navigating social constraint that reveals Austen already in complete command of her gifts.

Stevenson’s 1886 masterpiece alongside his finest short stories — a gothic thriller, a parable of repression, and one of literature’s most resonant metaphors about the divided self. Stranger, darker, and more interesting than any adaptation, the original rewards every reader who returns to it.

Mary Shelley’s extraordinary 1818 novel — the story of Victor Frankenstein and his abandoned creation, and one of the most profound meditations on responsibility, loneliness, and the ethics of creation ever written. The novel that invented science fiction remains as urgent as ever.

Jane Austen’s perfect comedy of manners and one of the great love stories ever written — Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, first impressions, and the willingness to be wrong about oneself. Sharp, funny, and absolutely modern, 200 years after it first appeared.

Oscar Wilde’s immortal 1890 parable of vanity, corruption, and the price of a soul — Dorian Gray’s portrait ages while he remains beautiful, recording every sin he refuses to acknowledge. Provocative, gothic, and morally complex: one of literature’s most enduring and unsettling masterpieces.