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Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The...
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the...
A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and,...
Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client...
On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army. Among the soldiers is...
Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...
When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they...
Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the...
As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on...
During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received - as a legacy from a friend,...
Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever...
Katy, a twelve-year-old gangly tomboy, dreams of blossoming into a sophisticated young woman, capable of grand deeds and...
Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, 'Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the...
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are...
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left...
When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion...
An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed...
Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The...
When young Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a cyclone, their Kansas farmhouse is carried off to the magical Land of Oz....
In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of...
Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is an...
While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful...
In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what...
Contains the Preface to the 1908 Edition
Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel...
As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern...
A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired...
This volume contains two adventures which pit the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin against Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous...
"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of...
One of Twain’s most celebrated novellas, ‘The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg’ is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story...
Mark Twain’s gloriously funny ‘Diary of Adam and Eve’, which John Updike described as a paradigm of the relations between sexes,...
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