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

'There is grandeur in this view of life ... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,...

"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...

Inspired by real-life events, this epic tale features a young sailor, Ishmael, who yearns for adventure aboard a whaling ship. In...

"A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul."
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis tells the tale of Gregor Samsa,...

"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,...

Jane Eyre rightly remains high on the list of the most popular English novels, and brought fame to its author, Charlotte Brontd,...

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...

Great Expectations (1861) is a favourite among many Dickens readers. In addition to its endearing hero, Pip - a blacksmith's boy,...

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

Into the sleepy village of Weatherbury arrives one day Bathsheba Everdene, come to take charge of her late uncle's thriving farm....

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or...

Dracula (1897) begins with a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, on his way to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula, who is buying...

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

Rodion Raskolnikov is a handsome, yet impoverished student. Morally conflicted, he believes that extraordinary men who contribute...

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...

"It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that i go to than I have ever...

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

First published in 1879, A Doll's House rewrote the rules of drama. Henrik Ibsen's biographer, Halvdan Koht, wrote that the play...

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He received his early education from Jesuits, but as an adolescent...

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...

There's nothing like a good ghost story to give you a frisson of fear on a dark winter's night. Gathered in this haunting...

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