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Resurrection

Return from the Dead

Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction....

Return of the Native

The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As character after character is driven to self-destruction, the presence of Egdon...

Rewards and Fairies

Редьярд Киплинг

"Rewards and Fairies" is a collection of stories and a sequel to "Puck of Pook`s Hill" and, as Kipling wrote, `The tales had to be read by children, before people realised they were meant for grown-ups`. Through the...

Right Hand of Doom & Other Tales of Solomon Kane

This work contains an Introduction by Elliot. The sixteenth-century Puritan Solomon Kane has a thirst for justice which surpasses common reason. Sombre of mood, clad in black and grey, he `never sought to analyse his...

Rip van Winkle

Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her nagging to wander up into the...

Rob Roy

Robert Stevenson: Treasure Island

Robert Stevenson: Treasure Island

Robin Hood

H. Gilbert

Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this beautifully illustrated edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will...

Robinson Crusoe

D. Defoe

From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and...

Room of Ones Own & The Voyage Out ***

A Room of One`s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf`s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

This edition presents the classic free translation by Edward Fitzgerald of the great Persian poem by the 12th century astronomer and poet - Omar Khayyám. Fitzgerald`s masterful translation was first published as...

Rudyard Kipling. The Best Short Stories

R. Kipling

This is a fascinating selection of Kipling`s most famous short stories, bringing together the very best of his work. `Life`s Handicap` reflects his experiences of India, and contains two horror stories which permeate...

Scotts Last Expedition

The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott - written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier - are among the most poignant and haunting...

Scottish Ghost Stories

Scotland has a notoriously rich and diverse cultural tradition when it comes to the supernatural. Many of her greatest writers from Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg to Robert Louis Stevenson and John Buchan have...

Sea Wolf, the

Selected Works of Joseph Conrad (TPB)

Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad`s place in literature as one of the first `modernists` of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel provide a gripping account of...

Selected Stories (Chekhov)

Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (HB)

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf`s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and...

Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (TPB)

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf`s novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and...

Selected Short Stories

J. Conrad

This specially commissioned selection of Conrad`s matchless short stories includes such favourites as `Youth`, a modern epic of the sea; `The Secret Sharer`, a thrilling psychological drama; `An Outpost of Progress`,...

Selected Works of G.K.Chesterton (TPB)

G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul`s School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on...

Selected Works (Lawrence) TPB

Selected Lives

Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his "Lives" were the great men of...