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Professor Otto Lidenbrock's great adventure begins by chance when a scrap of paper drops out of an ancient book he has just...

The Great Gatsby is F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the American Jazz Age. It is the story of a fundamentally innocent man...

Originally entitled The Saddest Story, this is a heartbreaking, yet darkly witty, tale of betrayal and conflict in the years...

Alexei Ivanovich is tutor to a Russian family in a German spa town. They are bankrupt and eagerly awaiting the death of their...

''Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. "
First written during the sixth...

When the mild-mannered Lambert Strether travels from America to Paris on a mission to 'save' Chad, the son of his formidable...

Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include A...

The French Riviera of the mid-1920s is the new playground for rich Americans, among them elegant heiress Nicole Warren and her...

Sons and Lovers (1913) is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man's struggle for emotional independence.
Trapped in a...

"It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the...

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.'
The...

In The Portrait of a Lady. (1881), spirited young Isabel Archer travels from her home in Albany, New York, eager to discover what...

'l am half agony, half hope.'
Anne Elliot lost the love of her life eight years earlier and the sorrow lingers on. Yet the...

"Please, sir, I want some more."
Oliver Twist sent out shock waves when it appeared in 1838. With a half-starved orphan for a...

Northanger Abbey is the light-hearted account of a young girl's first excursion into fashionable society. Catherine Morland is...

Arcturus Crime Classics showcase unjustly neglected works by great writers from the 1930s - the so-called golden age of crime...

"Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power,...

Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent. Oppressed by her dreary life, she is drawn...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river...

A shipwreck brings Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, where he finds himself in a kingdom of tiny people. This experience is later...

Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy
Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

"…losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse."
Victorian London is...

Not for those of a nervous disposition! This chilling collection contains some of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories, including...

'Private misfortunes make up the general good, so that the more private misfortunes there are, the greater is the general...

Arcturus Crime Classics bring back into print great stories by great writers. Alongside names that will be familiar to crime...

'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most popular Holmes story, and rated by Sherlockians as his best. Written some eight years...

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and...

Jane Austen's novels concern the gentle, rural English middle class existence and conventions of the early 18th-century. The...

Anne Elliot lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A...