Fate favours the infant son of John and Alice Clayton when he is found and adopted by a female ape after the death of his...

"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark For the straightforward pathway had been lost......

Like the house itself, Wuthering Heights is set on the bleak Pennine moors, a fitting backdrop to this story of love, torment and...

"Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so."
First published in...

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
This is the first line of Rousseau's seminal work of political philosophy, a...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in a second series of twelve intriguing cases. They include The Adventure of Silver Blaze,...

'The horror! The horror!'

Seaman Charlie Marlowe lakes a decaying steamboat on a perilous voyage to the heart of Africa. His...

''Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. "
First written during the sixth...

"Who knows, he may grow up to be President some day, unless they hang him first!"
Aunt Polly's assessment of Tom's character...

Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr Watson are featured here in a series of twelve of their earliest cases. They include A...

The French Riviera of the mid-1920s is the new playground for rich Americans, among them elegant heiress Nicole Warren and her...

The Dashwood sisters - 19-year-old Elinor and Marianne, aged 17 - are left poor and homeless by their father's death. Although...

Arcturus Crime Classics showcase unjustly neglected works by great writers from the 1930s - the so-called golden age of crime...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river...

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....

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...

"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...

This classic text by Inazo Nitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a huge impact both in the West...

One of the most accomplished authors in history, Tolstoy has inspired and influenced generations of readers. While celebrated for...

Maxim Gorky's short stories provide a candid and unflinching portrayal of life among the downtrodden of Russian society. Drawing...

Revolution is in the air at Manor Farm after old Major, a prize boar, tells the other animals about his dream of freedom and...

Arguably the 20th-century's most famous novel, 1984 is a dystopian study of political tyranny, mind control, paranoia and secret...

Join the dots to reveal Santa Claus and his elves, loveable winter animals, and seasonal traditions from around the world! Filled...

This lavishly illustrated book is an excellent introduction to jungle animals for the young children. They can learn where...

This title covers the years since 1600 and includes the Revolution, slavery and the Civil War, prohibition, World Wars I and II,...

From the glories of the High Renaissance in Italy to the emotional visions of the Romantics, and from the groundbreaking...

Virgil's great epic tells of Aeneas' journey from Troy to found the new Roman race in Italy, meeting with storms, Cyclopes and...