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A book to read and reread, this reissue brings back to print an unforgettable romance and a timeless masterpiece.
Abandoned...

Wild describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. It...

Big Skeleton, Little Skeleton and Dog Skeleton are taking a spooky ride on the ghost train...

Where they encounter monster...

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese...

Perhaps his most famous work, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the...

Anton Chekhov's only full-length novel, this Penguin Classics edition of The Shooting Party is translated and edited by Ronald...

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the...

The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when...

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an...

Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey is one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature,...

'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens's story of...

A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and...

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological...

'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George Orwell

In 1844, Charles Dickens took a...

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of...

Pearce... , Киплинг...

The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling is a perfect selection of loved stories for all 7 year...

Blackman... , Gatehouse...

The Puffin Book of Stories for Five-year-olds edited by Wendy Cooling brings together stories perfectly suited for every...

An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to life

In 1857 when Captain...

Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady

In June 1983 Margaret...

English Food reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane...

'A reference bible... inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - Daily Mail Jane Grigson's...

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter...

Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...

The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth century

George Polya's...