These Comedies are among the best loved of Shakespeare`s plays. In each a problem emerges, is then intensified to a point of maximum confusion and potential upset, before the chaos is resolved, however improbably,...
Gripping Yarns (Adventure and Ghost Stories) TPB
Presents tales of high adventure and low intrigue from masters of the genre like John Buchan and Robert Louis Stevenson, classics of crime and detection from veteran thriller writers like Edgar Wallace and Arthur...
Jonathan Swift`s classic satirical fable was first published following the `South Sea Bubble` and other financial and commercial scandals which sadly strike a chord in our own times. It introduced many fictional lands...
`Hamlet` is not only one of Shakespeare`s greatest plays but also the most fascinatingly problematic tragedy in world literature. First performed around 1600, this is a gripping and exuberant drama of revenge, rich...
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the...
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the...
From the unsurpassed imagination of the creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard, here are twenty-one tales of suspense, high adventure and Lovecraftian horror. Foul sacrifices are made to a reptilian God in Hungary, a...
Haunter of the Dark: Lovecraft Vol.3
This title is selected and introduced by Elliott. `They were removing the stones quietly, one by one, from the centuried wall. And then, as the breach became large enough, they came out into the laboratory in single...
Heart of Darkness & Other Stories
Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the period of rapid colonial expansion in the 19th century, the story deals...
Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrad`s shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended, is capable of many interpretations. Set in the Congo during the...
`Heidi` is the heart-warming tale of a small girl`s power for good, and it has remained a firm favourite since it was first published over 100 years ago. It has been filmed and televised several times. It tells of...
Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare`s history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier`s renowned film. Henry himself,...
Herodotus (c480-c425) is `The Father of History` and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or...
Herodotus (c480-c425) is `The Father of History` and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195...
The Holy Qur`an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so...
The Holy Qur`an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so...
"The House of Mirth" tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her...
Translated by Constance Garnett. With an introduction by A. Briggs.
Henry Morton Stanley`s greeting to the Scottish medical missionary David Livingstone - Dr Livingstone, I presume? - is to exploration what Holmes` Elementary, my dear Watson is to detective fiction. It took place in a...
Human, All Too Human & Beyond Good and Evil
"Human, All Too Human" (1878) marks the point where Nietzsche abandons German romanticism for the French Enlightenment. At a moment of crisis in his life (no longer a friend of Richard Wagner, forced to leave academic...
This is the first English biography of the man who saved the Iron Duke and his army at this most famous battle. Without the timely arrival of the brave seventy-two-year old Blucher at the head of his Prussian army,...
