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With an Afterword by David Pinching Wuthering Heights tells the story of a romance between two youngsters: Catherine Earnshaw and an orphan boy, Heathcliff. After she rejects him for a boy from a bet...

With an Afterword by Anna South Mary Lennox is sent from an India as an orphan to live at Misselthwaite Manor. She arrives as a sour-faced, sickly and ill-tempered little madam but becomes friends wi...

With an Afterword by David Pinching One of Dickens´s most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds ...

With an Afterword by Oliver Francis Crime and Punishment is the story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. Raskolnikov, a poor student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, and then has to face...

With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies Illustrated by Sidney Paget These fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherloc...

With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies A Study in Scarlet introduced the great scientific detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, his friend and chronicler, to the reading public. This novel, ...

With an Afterword by Marcus Clapham This classic adventure, set in nineteenth-century France and Italy, tells the story of Edmund Dants, a young man falsely imprisoned who eventually finds himself in...

With an introduction by Peter Olney This book is an autobiographical account of five years in the childhood of naturalist Gerald Durrell when he lived with his family lived on the island of Corfu. Ap...

With an Afterword by Ned Halley Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among th...

With an Afterword by Ned Halley Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching,...

With an afterword by Professor Richard Greene Graham Greene was one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. This anthology contains the novella The Third Man, on which Carol Reed’s ch...

With an Afterword by Sam Gilpin Tess Durbeyfield, an innocent village girl, is seduced by a wealthy rake, Alec D´Urberville. Though he makes her pregnant she does not love him and and leaves him to r...

With an Afterword by Jonty Claypole The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the Puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an ageing scholar, arrives ...

With an Afterword by Ben Shaw Translation by T E Lawrence The Odyssey can claim to be Western literature´s first adventure story, and describes the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus in his quest to ret...

With an introduction by Marcus Clapham Illustrated throughout with black and white Art Nouveau style plates and vignettes by John D. Batten Published 1 April 2011 Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) was a no...

With an Afterword by Sam Gilpin In The Portrait of a Lady Henry James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young New York woman whose life is changed when she is v...

With an Afterword by Sam Gilpin Lawrence´s first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written s...

With an Afterword by Oliver Francis Written in the sixteenth century and almost immediately a subject of controversy, The Prince presents Machiavelli´s advice to a ruler who would seek to maintain hi...

With an Afterword by David Pinching This companion volume to Tales of Mystery & Imagination contains Poe´s best-known poetry and a selection of his very best stories, including some fine tales from t...

With an Afterword by Ned Halley Illustrated by Cecil Aldin Black Beauty tells the story of the horse´s own long and varied life, from a well-born colt in a pleasant meadow to an elegant carriage hor...

With an introduction by Ned Halley When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father’s throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as...

Introduction by Dr Robert Mighall Illustrated A young prince meets with his father´s ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to t...

Introduction by Dr Robert Mighall Illustrated Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare´s tragedies. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three ...

With an Afterword by Peter Harness The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published or ‘entered’ at Stationers’ Hall by the publisher Thomas Thorpe on 20th May 16...

With an Afterword by Sam Gilpin Treasure Island is one of the best-loved children´s stories of all time but is a wonderful adventure story that can be enjoyed at any age.When Jim Hawkins finds a pira...

With an Afterword by John Grant Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic. The story starts in London on 2 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitar...

3-book boxed set containing: Charlotte Brontë´s Jane Eyre, Emily Brontë´s Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë´s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies The Great Gatsby has long been celebrated as the archetypal American novel, and its influence on later writers from J.D. Salinger to John OHara cannot be ove...