As heard on Radio 4 and seen on Netflix, Nella Larsen’s Passing is a distinctive and revealing novel about racial...

Demelza Carne, the impoversished miner's daughter rescued from a fairground rabble, is now Ross Poldark's wife. But events are...

Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green...

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved...

The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells...

A special edition from Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any...

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Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its...

One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes...

Bringing together all Charles Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several longer tales. Here are chilling...

In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of...

First published in 1914, Dubliners depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes...

The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one, and Montague Rhodes James was a master of the genre.

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The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written...

English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the country of Ruritania on the eve of King Rudolf the Fifth's coronation. That...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved...

A breathtaking classic of psychological suspense by the inventor of the detective novel, Wilkie Collins, with an afterword by...

A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language...

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse,...

A stunning anthology of poetry to create calm and peacefulness. The poems are arranged around themes of meditation, friendship,...

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, swashbuckling novel about a young boy who is forced to go to sea and who is then caught up in...

H. G. Wells skilfully combines tension, wit and terror in The Invisible Man, a masterpiece of science fiction.

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In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early...

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous...

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Happy Hour is a gorgeous gift book of classic poetry which fizzes with poetry about all kinds of drink, drinkers and drinking...

All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in...

Sensual, dark and thrilling, Bram Stoker's Dracula remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction, and in this elegant Macmillan...

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective....

The sequel to Anne of Green Gables, there are lots of new characters to get to know as well as many much loved ones to meet again...