Classics

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century, when a...

Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and...

The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the...

Major General Sir Richard Hannay is the fictional secret agent created by writer and...

In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a...

George's memory is inseparable from Orkney, where he was born the youngest child of a...

These two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and...

Greenvoe, the tight-knit community on the Orcadian island of Hellya, has existed...

Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the...

New and controversial abridged edition of Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian, set in...

More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign...