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

In La Vita Nuova, Italy's greatest poet recounts the famous story of his passionate love for Beatrice. The drama of their...

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...

The inspiration for the hit Netflix show, Lupin, Arsene Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from...

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

Les Miserables is a magnificent, sweeping story of revolution, love and the will to survive set amidst the poverty stricken...

Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen is a rare collection and a must...

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...

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...

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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...

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial...

Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell...

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

This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of If Only They Could Talk features an afterword by Yorkshire Shepherdess...

Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in...

Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for...

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

In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't...

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

The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers...

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...

Bleak House is not only a love story and a tightly plotted murder mystery, but also a condemnation of the corruption at the heart...

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet's finest and best-loved poems such as...

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

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

The poems in Poems on Nature are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter to reflect in verse the changes of the seasons...

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