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This selection of Carrolls works includes Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple...

This selection of Carrolls works includes Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple...

Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyles A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science detection, and John H. Watson, the...

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgeralds finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of theroaring twenties, and a devastating expose of the Jazz Age. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the...

Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. The novel has thus seared its...

Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had...

Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur...

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up dead souls. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain...

Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: Of all my books I like this the best. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the authors own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of...

Daisy Miller is one of Henry Jamess most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its...

With an Introduction by Jeff Wallace. A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die... Darwins theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or species has...

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph...

Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the authors first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroines movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth...

Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a literary gentleman. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the...

In the hope of saving her brothers life, should a woman submit to rape Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt How powerful in the state should religion become Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with...

Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the...

Shakespeare s Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course...

First published in 1900, Lord Jim established Conrad as one of the great storytellers of the twentieth century. Set in the Malay Archipelago, the novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale...

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens working title for the novel, Nobodys Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens childhood...

An invaluable companion to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twains inimitable portrait of the great Father of Waters. Part memoir, part travelogue, it expresses the full range of...