‘Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen.’...

‘… 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...

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In...

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,...

‘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 Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the...

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...

Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor is an historical novel of high adventure set in the South West of England during the turbulent...

When Father goes away with two strangers one evening, the lives of Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are shattered. They and their...

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...

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury.
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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...

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The Textual editing...

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

In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land...

When 15-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane, he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir...

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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...

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
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Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became 'show...

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