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

A joyous Amazon adventure set in the lush nature of Brazil, Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea is a modern classic loved by...

Set in rural Nebraska, Willa Cather's My Antonia is both the intricate story of a powerful friendship and a brilliant portrayal...

After being chased from the home of an upper-class young girl called Ellie, chimney-sweep Tom falls asleep and tumbles into a...

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

Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable...

Khayyam... , Честертон...

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

One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World...

With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first...

In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the...

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

Doyle... , Ирвинг...

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

Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but...

Readers and critics were scandalized by The Awakening when it was first published, but it is now regarded as among the boldest...

Malice Aforethought is one of the earliest and finest examples of the inverted detective story - we know who committed the crime,...

Candide, or the Optimist is Voltaire's hilarious and deeply scathing satire on the Age of Enlightenment. This classic of French...

Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and...

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that.
Part of the Macmillan...

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

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

'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.'

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning,...

Bronte... , Herriot...

A gorgeous anthology to dip into and savour the rich literary heritage of Yorkshire, Britain’s largest county. Yorkshire is...

Collins... , Southey...

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

The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional...

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

Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About...

Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and...

Aged ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthier relations, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. However, life there is not...

The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive...

Chomei... , Descartes...

In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic...