(Hardback)

This handsome hardback collection brings together 20 chilling horror stories from the maestro of suspense, Edgar Allan Poe, presented with a gold-embossed cover design, gilded page edges and beautiful endpapers. Inside you will find 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Tell-Tale Heart', 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and other classic tales.

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Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective.

(Paperback, New edition)

On a poor farm near Starkfield in western Massachusetts, Ethan Frome struggles to wrest a living from the land, unassisted by his whining and hypochondriacal wife Zeena. When Zeena's young cousin Mattie Silver is left destitute, the only place she can go is Ethan's farm.

(Paperback)

A novel of ambition, about a man who rises from the most humble of beginnings in Manchester and reaches the very top in politics.

(Paperback)

Considered one of the world's greatest novels, this controversial classic offers modern readers a vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. Includes a new Introduction. Reissue.

(Paperback, UK ed.)

Finnegans Wake is Joyces last great work, and is formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. It also remains the most hilarious, obscene, book of innuendos ever to be imagined.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility an engineering dream for the industrial age

(Paperback)

Gerhardie's first comic novel tells the story of a young Englishman who returns to St Petersburg. Part British romantic comedy, part Russian social realism, this funny and poignant novel is the tale of persistance in love and hope.

(Hardback)

Fully illustrated with gorgeously spooky art, this handsome gift book showcases the best of the Victorian ghost story.

(Paperback)

No home library is complete without the classics! Great Expectations is a keepsake to be read and treasured.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. This novel attacks the political and financial corruption.

(Hardback, New edition)

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

(Hardback, Annotated edition)

This latest collection celebrates Hans Christian Andersens unique literary output and gathers together much-loved tales such as The Little Mermaid, The Emperors New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling, The Princess and the Pea and The Snow Queen.

(Paperback, New edition)

Set in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment, which is the the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby.

(Paperback, New edition)

A tale of horror, set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century. The story deals with the highly disturbing effects of economic, social and political exploitation of European and African societies and the cataclysmic behaviour this induced in some individuals.

(Hardback)

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(Hardback)

The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyles wonderful tales of the inimitable consulting detective at work.

(Paperback)

"A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1968 by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc."--Title page verso.

(Paperback)

Human, All Too Human (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. The result is one of the cornerstones of his life's work. Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is a scathing and powerful critique of philosophy, religion and science.

(Hardback)

A moving memoir from the author of "Simple Passion" and "Shame" traces a mother's tragic illness and the understanding reached between a parent and child as death nears.