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Eighty short tales of the ghostly, arcane and terrifying make up this collection by five horror writers of the 19th and early...

Published in 1907, Conrad's compelling tale of anarchy, espionage and violence is set in the seedy back streets of Victorian...

Silas Marner (1861) is Eliot's classic tale of an outsider. A weaver who comes to live and work alone in the Midlands village of...

Mary Lennox is an unhappy and unloved little girl. After being orphaned, she is sent from India to live at her uncle's gloomy...

The Invisible Man tells the tale of a scientist who finds a way to make himself invisible, but to his dismay is unable to reverse...

In the village of Iping, a strange man arrives at a local inn wrapped in bandages. He refuses to leave his room where he is...

Women in Love is D.H. Lawrence's masterful sequel to The Rainbow, revolving round the lives and loves of Gudrun and Ursula...

In Around the Moon, Verne describes how the gravitational force of a large asteroid can change the course of a space ship, and...

This collection brings together the unique stories from H. P. Lovecraft's formative years, ranging from the petrifying 'Dagon'...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Most of Lovecraft's tales were standalone and of the short fiction variety, but in the Randolph Carter Tales Lovecraft followed...

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

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart"
- Kahlil Gibran

Through his writing, Kahlil Gibran provides...

Published in 1826, The Last of the Mohicans is an adventure story centred on the kinship between white frontiersman, Natty Bumppo...

Dasent G.... , Tibbits...

Meet gullible trolls, enterprising princesses and nefarious wizards in this treasury of 25 Norse fairy tales.

Collected by...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote numerous short stories alongside his novels, the best known of which is of course The Great Gatsby....

Beautiful and spirited, but also impoverished and mistreated, Tess suffers through the hypocrisy of Victorian society, and falls...

Hawthorne... , Bulfinch...

Meet legendary heroes, powerful goddesses and vengeful monsters in this beautiful hardback collection of Greek and Roman...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731, first published in March 1722. The novel is a fictionalised...