(Hardback)

Tells the story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by the three ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, has been adapted into countless film and stage versions and is today the most famous and loved of all Christmas tales.

(Paperback, New edition)

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward.

(Hardback)

This luxurious pocket facsimile edition presents Charles' Dickens best-loved tale A Christmas Carol, presented with gold gilded page-edges and original full-colour illustrations by John Leech.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

This beautiful HarperCollins Childrens Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf.

(Paperback, New edition)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work

(Paperback, UK ed.)

A Room of Ones Own has become a classic feminist essay; The Voyage Out is highly significant as her first novel.

(Paperback)

Traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. The author based his historical detail on Carlyle's "The French Revolution", and his own observations and investigations during his numerous visits to Paris.

(Paperback)

George Eliot's first novel shows all her humane intelligence and intimate knowledge of the richness and complexity of ordinary life. .

(Paperback, New edition)

This novel goes deep into the dark recesses of human nature and sets forth a philosophy of conduct and inexorable retribution for wrongdoing. Set in the countryside of the English Midlands at the start of the 19th century, it relates a story of seduction, crime, remorse and suffering.

(Paperback, New edition)

An expos of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century, Agnes Grey has a power and poignancy which mark it out as a landmark work of literature

(Paperback)

Featuring the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, this beautiful HarperCollins Childrens Classics edition is perfect for every bookshelf.

(Paperback, New edition)

Anna Karenina is one of the loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. This book addresses the very nature of society at various levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence.

(Paperback)

This beautiful HarperCollins Childrens Classics edition of L. M. Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables is the perfect addition to any bookshelf.

(Hardback)

This elegant hardback edition brings together 25 celebrated short stories by Anton Chekhov, including such classics as 'Vanka', 'The Lady with a Dog' and 'Gooseberries'. Featuring foil cover embossing, gilded page-edges and patterned endpapers, it makes a wonderful collector's item for lovers of classic literature.

(Paperback)

Describes the journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just - in circling the globe within eighty days. Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour to the race against time.

(Paperback, New edition)

Provides an account of the 'No Popery' riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. This novel tells the tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism.

(Paperback, New edition)

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom's Cabin as a genuine American folk possession.

(Paperback, New edition)

Represents a city's underworld, and the laws of corruption and delay. This novel projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin.

(Paperback)

The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories.

(Paperback, UK ed.)

Voltaire was the nom de plume of Franois-Marie Aroue, an 18th-century philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide, a biting satire on the philosophy of the time, is considered his finest work.

(Hardback)

The Library of America turns its attention to Carson McCullers, one of the Deep South s most iconic novelists, to celebrate her centenary.

(Paperback)

Each of these short stories was written specifically for Christmas. They combine concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore. The stories include "A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life" and "The Cricket on the Hearth".