‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as...

Like George Orwell, Franz Kafka has given his name to a world of nightmare, but in Kafka’s world, it is never completely clear...

Its lyricism, comedy (both broad and subtle) and magical transformations have long made A Midsummer Night’s Dream one of the most...

Little Women is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time, based on the author’s own youthful experiences. It...

Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman,...

When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious...

‘Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!’ Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps,...

The perfect gift for any Jane Austen lover. Box set contains six books, together creating a comprehensive collection of Austen’s...

Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson and Browning. He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty...

When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert apply to an orphanage for a boy to help on their farm, Green Gables, they are astonished when a...

Christina Rossetti is widely regarded as the most considerable woman poet in England before the twentieth century. No reading of...

Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities....

The Little Prince is a modern fable, and for readers far and wide both the title and the work have exerted a pull far in excess...

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host...

Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the...

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its...

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A collection of Oscar Wildess many varied works. These include the tender fairy stories he...

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during Charles Dickens' lifetime. He had always loved a good ghost story himself,...

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