Louisa May Alcott Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as their father is away fighting in the Civil War, and the family has fallen on hard... | H. G. Wells Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, where he is delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty and contentment in the form of the Eloi... |
Donald Barthelme; David Gates This collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence, producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments... | Joseph Heller Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, this title tells the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who... |
Ernest Hemingway High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle... | F. Scott Fitzgerald; Tony Tanner; ... Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island... |
Arthur Conan Doyle; P. D. James Contains the investigations and adventures of the world's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes from "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" to "His Last Bow". This title follows the illustrious career... | Leo Tolstoy; Anthony Briggs At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. In this book, the author entwines grand themes - conflict and love... |
Arthur Conan Doyle Accompanying Sherlock Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Dr Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror. There is... | Ray Bradbury The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. |
Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; Noel... Brings together twenty-seven of the most beloved of the famous Grimms' fairy tales, including all the classics, such as "Cinderella", "Snow White", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Hansel and Gretel". This book... | Harper Lee; Sissy Spacek Explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties. |
George Orwell Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and... | Emile Zola; Brian Nelson The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol... |
Vladimir Nabokov; Mary McCarthy The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor... | Nancy Mitford; Alan Cumming Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English... |