Classics

Playful, sharp and fantatsical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great SurrealistIn 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for...

Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle...

Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is a monumental tale of redemption, justice, and the resilience of the human spirit. Set in post-revolutionary France, it follows the life of ex-convict Jean Valjean as he seeks a new beginning, only to...

Greek warrior Odysseus is desperate to make his way home to the island of Ithaca. But giants, sirens and many-headed serpents are just some of the obstacles that stand in his way. Join him on his amazing adventures in this dynamic graphic novel.

A handsome and elegant reader's journal for book lovers and book club goers of all levels. Within its 144 pages you'll find a checklist of "must-read" books, guided content to help readers focus their literary explorations, sample book club questions,...

A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure clues overlooked by others, dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. With the help...

The Little Prince as you've never seen him before!From the award-winning design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter films, fly away on a magical and poetic journey with this special edition of Saint-Expury's masterpiece. Through magnificent...

An outrageously witty tragicomedy-of-manners about a queer black teenager coming of age, introduced by Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk.When a peacock's days are over, they're over.Oliver is precocious, black and gay. He reads Baudelaire, plays with his...

A Lit Hub "Need to Read" Novel of the Summer  Unearthed after half a century, this radical portrait of a woman who leaves her family to live alone in a woodland cabin will pierce the heart of anybody who has ever wanted to escape. I swear...

Agatha Christie’s complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their...

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale...

The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was written before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses. It was eventually published, posthumously, in 1857, with the approval of Charlotte Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell...

This elegant hardback edition presents Jane Austen's unforgettable novel, Emma, featuring sumptuous gold cover embossing and gilded page edges.Albeit that she is not yet 21, Emma Woodhouse foresees a future as a spinster dabbling in matchmaking...

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine...

An imposing castle looms over a village and no one seems to be allowed inside...not even K., the Land Surveyor whose livelihood depends on getting inside. Though never completed due to Kafka's untimely death, The Castle paints a striking image...

On Happiness contains the Greek philosopher's teachings about life and death, religion and science, happiness, friendship and morality. His views were influential on later scientists and philosophers, such as Isaac Newton, Thomas Hobbes and Karl...

The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from a life of solitude on the mountain to announce to the world that God has been supplanted by the "Superman", the divine in human form. In one of the most radical and influential works of modern...

In ancient Greece, rhetoric was central to public life, and many sought to master the art of persuasion. Yet it was Aristotle?s The Art of Rhetoric, written in the 4th century?BC, that became the definitive guide. Exploring the roles of emotion, reason,...

‘One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.’ - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours. Set in London during the aftermath of the First World War, the elegant Clarissa Dalloway is putting the finishing...

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a mysterious map in a dead man’s sea-chest, he sets off on a thrilling adventure of pirates, treasure, and villainy. Hired as a cabin boy on the Hispaniola, Jim finds himself in the company of a frightening...