James Thurber's T...

Set in England during Richard I's reign, Sir Walter Scott's fanciful, vivid reinterpretation of medieval life is a successful blend of fact, myth a...

Shakespeare's classic tragedy that charts the revenge-fuelled madness of the Prince of Denmark is re-told skilfully by brother and sister team Mary...

The Great Winglebury Duel is a story based in Winglebury; a town inhabited by liberal people. A town renowned for great architecture and art, none ...

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With the same brilliance that characterized his classic I, Claudius, Robert Graves continues the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in...

The moon beamed down genially on the turrets and battlements of Blandings Castle. Sleep, however, eluded Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth. To be co...

As far as his father, an accomplished poet, is concerned, Richard will never amount to anything, and so he decides to take his fate into his own ha...

In this world of bribes, vendettas and swindling, in which heiresses are gambled and won, Trollope's characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury ...

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, ...

This delightful Washington Irving tale, based upon legends and folklore of his day, follows the loveable but lazy Rip Van Winkle's escape from his ...

In the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada, a lone wolf fights the heroic daily fight for life in the wild. But after he is captured and cru...

Written in 1819 but set in 12th-century England, Ivanhoe is a tale of love struggling to survive against a violent backdrop of politics and war. Wi...

Buck is a lucky dog. He has a warm, well-fed and happy life in the safe onfines of his wealthy master's home. But a betrayal by a servant leads him...

The precursor of Jurassic Park. Somewhere in South America, there is a plateau; and roaming in its forests are dinosaurs. Only one man has ever bee...

In the enveloping mists of desolate Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes sets out to solve the mystery of The Hound of the Baskervilles, accompanied by the fa...

Tradition says that dragons come in many shapes and sizes but they all breathe fire, whisk fierce, scaly tails and frighten the local villagers. Wh...

In this exciting sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the boy Tip and his pal Jack Pumpkinhead are on the run from the old witch Mombi. Fleeing to...

A spine-tingling collection of classic ghost stories, perfect for those winter nights! This set contains The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, Th...

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Do...

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds ...

In this, Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, loosely based on his tortured life with Zelda, we follow the wild, quarrelsome and pleasure-seeking caree...

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Howards End' is the story of the Schlegel sisters and their struggle to come to terms with their German heritage in Edwardian England. Their lives ...