Collector’s editions


Книги серии16


Arthur Doyle: A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four

`Doctor Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes` - The most famous introduction in the history of crime fiction takes place in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s A Study in Scarlet, bringing together Sherlock Holmes, the master of science...





Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it.But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her...


Jane Austen: Persuasion

What does Persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen`s quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She...


Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good...


Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and...



Lewis Carroll: Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland

With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all...


Louisa Alcott: Little Women

Little Women is one of the best-loved children`s stories of all time, based on the author`s own youthful experiences. It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the...




Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli`s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub...


Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility is a delightful comedy of manners in which the sisters Elinor and Marianne represent these two qualities. Elinor’s character is one of Augustan detachment, while Marianne, a fervent disciple of...