From Austen to Zola, from medieval to the modern day - all genres are catered for between the covers of these coveted classics.
Classics Books
Turtleback Books All Quiet on the Western Front
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£23.83
William Morrow & Company Farmer Giles of Ham
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£18.40
Houghton Mifflin The 42nd Parallel
Book SynopsisThe first in John Dos Passos''s acclaimed USA trilogy—a linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age—his, and ours (The New Yorker). John Dos Passos''s USA trilogy (comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money), named one of the best books of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, is a grand, kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and life on every page. Told in stories and newsreels consisting of front-page headlines and article fragments from the Chicago Tribune, the lives and fortunes of five characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley are caught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward. As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of Eugene Debs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make appearances. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their own little co
£15.19
Houghton Mifflin The Big Money
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£13.65
Houghton Mifflin The Annotated Hobbit
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£29.75
William Morrow & Company The Hobbit 70th Anniversary Edition
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£22.50
Michael Walmer Descend Again
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£13.25
Michael Walmer Seven for a Secret
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£13.25
Michael Walmer Bird of Paradise
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£14.20
Michael Walmer Leone Leoni
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£10.40
Michael Walmer One of Cleopatras Nights
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£17.05
Michael Walmer The Poor Man
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£13.25
Michael Walmer The Story of Keth
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£12.30
Michael Walmer Mauprat
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£17.05
Michael Walmer Time Enough Later
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£12.30
Michael Walmer A Greedy Peasant 5 Zephyr Books
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£18.00
Michael Walmer The End of a Childhood
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£17.05
Michael Walmer Tang A Shetland Story 1 Northus Shetland Classics
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£17.05
Michael Walmer Up and Out
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£17.05
Michael Walmer Into Egypt
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£11.35
Penguin Putnam Inc One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Book SynopsisKen Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsBoisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the story through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned. Hailed upon its publication as a glittering parable of good and evil (The New York Times Book Review) and a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them (Time), Kesey's powerful book went on to sell millions of copies and remains as bracing and insightful today as when it was first released. This new deluxe hardcover edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of the novel on February 1, 1962, and will be a must have for any literature lover.
£22.50
Penguin Putnam Inc East of Eden
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£29.60
Harvard University Press The Moralized Ovid
Book SynopsisWritten in about 1340 by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire, The Moralized Ovid was a highly influential interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages. It contains descriptions of the gods followed by allegorical interpretations of major myths. This edition presents a new English translation and an authoritative Latin text.
£25.46
Random House USA Inc This Side of Paradise
Book Synopsis F. Scott Fitzgerald’s extraordinary career as a novelist ended abruptly and unhappily, but it began with one of the most brilliant first novels in the history of American literature. Published when its author was just twenty-three, This Side of Paradise is about the education of a youth, and to this universal story Fitzgerald brought the promise of everything that was new in the vigorous, restless America during the years following World War I. Amory Blaine–egoistic, versatile, callow, and imaginative–inhabits a book that is interwoven with songs, poems, playscripts, and questions and answers. His growth from self-absorption to sexual awareness and personhood is described by means of a continuous improvisatory energy and delight. Far from being distracting, Fitzgerald’s formal inventiveness and verve only heighten our sense that the world being described is our own modern world. A profound coherence informs This Side of Paradise–a coherence born of its author’s uncanny ability to revel in the fragmented surfaces of human life while exploring and comprehending its serene depths.
£18.00
Random House USA Inc The Wings of the Dove
Book SynopsisOf the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. To the creation of the other two, Merton Densher and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy, who conspire in an act of deceit and betrayal, he brought a lifetime's distilled wisdom about the frailty of the human soul when it is trapped in the depths of need and desire. And he brought to the drama that unites these three characters, in the drawing rooms of London and on the storm-lit piazzas of Venice, a starkness and classical purity almost unprecedented in his work.Under its brilliant, coruscating surfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical and psychological devices, <
£20.80
Random House USA Inc Notes from Underground Vintage Classics
Book SynopsisAward-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
£12.75
Simon & Schuster The Age of Reason
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Entertaining...the characters are well observed and conscientiously and intelligently studied."-- Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
£12.69
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Dubliners
Book SynopsisThis Vintage Classics edition of James Joyce’s groundbreaking story collection has been authoritatively edited by scholars Hans Walter Gabler and Walter Hettche and includes a chronology, bibliography, and afterword by John S. Kelly. Also included in a special appendix are the original versions of three of the stories as well as Joyce''s long-suppressed preface to Dubliners. With the fifteen stories in Dubliners Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were at once blasphemous and sacramental. Whether writing about the death of a fallen priest (The Sisters), the petty sexual and fiscal machinations of Two Gallants, or of the Christmas party at which an uprooted intellectual discovers just how little he really knows about his wife (The Dead), Joyce takes narrative art to places it had never been before.
£9.99
Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) Men without Women
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£12.28
Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) Of Time and the River
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£40.00
Princeton University Press Eugene Onegin
Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"Nabokov's translation and commentary, taken together, can best be considered as a sui generis work of art--perhaps his ultimate masterpiece."--J. Thomas Shaw, Slavic and East European Journal
£46.75
Princeton University Press Golden Age of Chinese Drama Yuan TsaChu
Book SynopsisThe 171 extant plays of the Yuan period (1279-1368) are the oldest and most brilliant examples of Chinese dramatic literature. In this first comprehensive study, Chung-wen Shih systematically explores the riches of Yuan drama, from its unexcelled lyric poetry to its colorful characterization. After tracing the popular genres that contributed to theTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Preface, pg. ix*Contents, pg. xv*I. Historical Background and Social Milieu, pg. 3*II. Conventions and Structure, pg. 20*III. Characterization, pg. 47*IV. Themes, pg. 68*V. The Language, pg. 113*VI. Music, pg. 180*VII. The Stage, pg. 198*Epilogue, pg. 223*Appendix, pg. 225*Abbreviations, pg. 235*Selected Bibliography, pg. 237*Glossary, pg. 281*Index, pg. 297
£38.40
Princeton University Press A Preface to Chaucer
Book SynopsisWhat were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand? In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118 illustrations-of medieval sculpture, cathedral interiors, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, ornamental devices and decorations-to show how these conventions affTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*Illustrations, pg. xiii*I. Introduction: Medieval and Modern Art, pg. 1*II. Some Principles of Medieval Aesthetics, pg. 52*III. Late Medieval Style, pg. 138*IV. Allegory, Humanism, and Literary Theory, pg. 286*V. Some Medieval Doctrines of Love, pg. 391*Index, pg. 505*Plates, pg. 523
£64.00
Scholastic Animal Farm
Book SynopsisWhen the ill-treated animals of Manor Farm rebel against their masterMr Jones and take over the farm, they believe that this meansfreedom and equality for all. But then a ruthless Napoleon takescontrol and the other animals soon realise that they are not allas equal as they thought.
£6.99
Scholastic African and Caribbean Folktales Myths and Legends
Book SynopsisFrom the trickster tale of Anansi the spider, to the story of howthe leopard got his spots; from the tale of the king who wantedto the moon, to Aunt Misery's magical starfruit tree. This book includestraditional favourites and classic folktales and mythology.
£7.59
Scholastic A Christmas Carol Annotation Edition
Book SynopsisThis annotation edition of Dickens' well-known yuletide tale is perfectfor students and Dickens enthusiasts alike. Extra wide marginsand double spacing leaves lots of room for notes. Contains toptips on effectively annotation and different techniques.
£7.59
Scholastic Animal Farm Annotation Edition
Book SynopsisThis annotation edition of Orwell's well-known satire is perfectfor students and Orwell enthusiasts alike. Extra wide margins anddouble spacing leaves lots of room for notes. Contains top tipson effective annotation and different revision techniques.
£7.19
Scholastic The Sign of Four Annotation Edition
Book SynopsisThis annotation edition featuring Conan Doyle's famous detectiveis perfect for students and Sherlock enthusiasts alike. Extra widemargins and double spacing leaves lots of room for notes. Containstop tips on effectively annotation and different techniques.
£7.59
Scholastic Frankenstein Annotation Edition
Book SynopsisThis annotation edition of Mary Shelly's well-known gothic novel is perfect for students and horror enthusiasts alike. Extra wide margins and double spacing leaves lots of room for notes. Contains top tips on effectively annotation and different techniques.
£8.54
British Library Publishing The Ghost Stories of M. R. James
Book SynopsisThe second in a series of republished classic literature, The Ghost Stories of M. R. James collects the tales that best illustrate his quiet mastery of the ghost story form.
£13.49
British Library Publishing Glimpses of the Unknown
Book SynopsisFrom the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early 20th century.Table of ContentsOn the Embankment - Hugh E. Wright; The Mystery of the Gables - Elsie Norris; The Missing Word - Austin Philips; Phantom Death - Huan Mee; The Wraith of the Rapier - Firth Scott; The Soul of Maddalina Tonelli - James Barr; Haunted! - Jack Edwards; Our Strange Traveller - Percy James Brebner; A Regent of Love Rhymes - Guy Thorne; Amid the Trees - Francis Xavier; The River's Edge - Mary Schultze; A Futile Ghost - Mary Reynolds; Ghosts - Lumley Deakin; Kearney - Elizabeth Jordan; When Spirits Steal - Philippa Forest; The House of the Black Evil - Eric Purves; The Woman in the Veil - E. F. Benson; The Treasure of the Tombs - F. Britten Austin
£9.49
British Library Publishing Mortal Echoes
Book SynopsisThe stories in this anthology depict the haunting moment when characters come face-to-face with their own mortality. Spanning two centuries, Mortal Echoes features some of the finest writers in the English language - including Edgar Allan Poe, Graham Greene, May Sinclair and H. G. Wells.
£14.18
British Library Publishing The Question Mark
Book SynopsisIn 1926 Muriel Jaeger set out to explore `The Question Mark’ of what a future society might look like if human nature were properly represented. The result is a pioneering science fiction novel and forerunner of the now-familiar genre of dystopia, in which the utopian society of the future is not the paradise it appears at first glance.
£8.54
British Library Publishing The Chianti Flask
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1934, this exquisitely crafted novel blends the tenets of a traditional mystery with an exploration of the psychological impact of death, accusation, guilt and justice in the aftermath of murder.
£8.54
British Library Publishing The Open Door
Book SynopsisThis newly edited volume collects six of her greatest ‘Seen and Unseen’ stories – Oliphant’s most popular series in her day – and includes a new introduction exploring the life of this pioneering novelist.
£13.49
British Library Publishing The Port of London Murders
Book SynopsisA moody classic set around London’s historic docks published in 1938, Josephine Bell’s unique and atmospheric writing shines in a mystery weaving together blackmail, bootleg lingerie and, of course, murder.
£8.54
British Library Publishing Murder in the Basement
Book SynopsisA novel pairing dark humour and intelligent detection work, this 1932 ‘whowasdunin?’ mystery is an example of a celebrated Golden Age author’s most inventive work.
£9.49
British Library Publishing Crimes of Cymru
Book SynopsisPresenting fourteen stories from ranging from the 1909 through to the 1980s, this new anthology celebrates a selection of beloved Welsh authors such as Cardiff’s Roald Dahl and Abergavenny’s Ethel Lina White, as well as lesser-known yet highly skilled writers such as Cledwyn Hughes and Jack Griffith.
£10.44
