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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz & Glinda of Oz

The War of the Worlds & The War in the Air

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Set in Hardy`s Wessex, Tess of the d`Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was...

Three Men in a Boat & Three Men on a Bummel

There are four of them - George, Harris, the writer himself and that dog, .Montmorency - all participants in a boating expedition on the Thames. The difficulties and vicissitudes heaped upon these innocents develop to...

Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

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Treasure Island

"Fifteen men on the dead man`s chest - Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck, and is perhaps the best adventure story ever written.When young...

Twelfth Night

The gentle melancholy and lyrical atmosphere of "Twelfth Night" have long made the play a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. The plot revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, but is further...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns...

Ulysses (Collector`s Edition)

Ulysses

Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce`s astonishing masterpiece, "Ulysses", tells of the diverse events...

Wind in the Willows

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame`s classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his `Poop-poop-poop` road-hogging new...

Wives and Daughters

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships - father, daughter and step-mother, father...

Women in Love

WWC Alice in Wonderland (Illust. by Tenniel)

This edition contains "Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass". It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them....

100 Selected Stories

O Henry

This collection of 100 of O Henry`s finest stories is a showcase for the sheer variety of one of America`s best and best-loved short story writers. The variety of the stories is amazing; O Henry is as at home...

A Childs Garden of Verses

The 64 poems in A Child`s Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the pen of the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood...

A Little Princess

F. Burnett

Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin`s. Her father was immensely rich and she became `show pupil` - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has...

A Midsummer Nights Dream CE`

A Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread

Robert Murray Gilchrist (1868-1917) is perhaps best known for his interest in topography, and for his stories set in Derbyshire`s Peak District. But he was also a master of mystery and horror, as this richly varied...

A Pair of Blue Eyes

A Pair of Blue Eyes is celebrated for its central scene which shocked and stimulated Victorian readers. Forever after it caused Hardy to be embroiled in arguments concerning the sexual morality of his novels in which...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce`s Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work. This novel is a...

A Portrait of Artist as a Young Man

J. Joyce

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" represent the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce`s "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work. The novel...

A Tale of Two Cities

C. Dickens

`A Tale of Two Cities` (1859), Dickens` greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail...

A to Z of English Literature

David Rothwell takes on the challenge of summarising the entire body of English Literature, from its earliest origins to the current day within the confines of a standard paperback. His whistle-stop through the best...

Adam Bede

`Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...`Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot`s first...