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'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun.'

Written between 1591 and 1595,...

Cosy up for a festive reading bonanza with these heart-warming seasonal tales of Christmas by Charles Dickens. As well as the...

The story of David Copperfield (1850) began as a memoir of Dickens' boyhood experiences in a blacking factory and grew into one...

'I fail to see', writes suburban bank clerk Charles Pooter '- because I do not happen to be a "Somebody" - why my diary should...

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness - I am nothing. - Virginia Woolf

First...

How can I retrace today the strange steps of my obsession...

The Turn of the Screw tells the tale of an unnamed governess who...

HG Wells' thrilling 'scientific romance' about the Martian landings in Woking and the terrifying alien conquest of London has...

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.

In...

The War of the Worlds introduced the idea of alien invasion to the world. Featuring inscrutable extra-terrestrials armed with a...

A study of conflict between father and daughter, this is the story of Catherine, the plain, obedient daughter of Dr August Sloper...

Selected from the work of soldiers killed in action - starting with Rupert Brooke in 1915 and ending with the tragic loss of...

'We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be...

The horrors of the First World War brought released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it....

This beautiful hardback treasury brings together the best-loved tales of Brothers Grimm, with deluxe silver embossing and gilded...

'One might have imagined that the British Empire was in danger. The Standard spoke of me as a menace to English letters; and the...

The magnificent attitude of not giving a damn ... and to seek the moment's happiness as fervently and persistently as possible....

Under the watchful eye of her overbearing father, Dorothy takes care of the practical side of running a parish, from organising...

In one of the earliest works of science fiction, H. G. Wells brings to life the joys of space travel and humanity's boundless...

In a drunken stupor, protagonist Michael Henchard mistakenly sells his wife and child to a sailor. Eighteen years later, secrets...

This awe-inspiring collection brings together the complete mythologies of the Norse peoples, from the story of Brunhild to the...

The distinguished artist, illustrator, author, and poet Edward Lear was one of the great humourists of the 19th century. He is...

Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, originally published in 1920, captures the feel of its era and explores themes such as the quest...

This deluxe clothbound hardback presents F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel, This Side of Paradise. It follows the story of...

A young governess is employed to look after two enchantingly beautiful orphans.
Striving to protect the children, she becomes...

The poems of Wilfred Owen have shaped our remembrance of World War I. The power of his writing arises not only from his role as...

After his centuries-long slumber, the once insomniac Graham awakes into the nightmarish and unrecognizable London of 2100,...

Father Brown appears to be a clumsy and naive man but this unimpressive exterior hides a razor sharp mind. His great intellect...

In one of the most famous novels of science fiction, the shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself alone on an island with a mad...

In HG Wells's disturbing evolutionary tale, Edward Prendrick is the shipwrecked naturalist who finds himself stranded on the...

A collection of poetic reflections on life and death. Ranging from musings on youth and age, and elegies on bereavement and grief...