Classics

Synopsis Includes a new Introduction from Michael Dibdin. At M's request, Bond has gone up against Sir Hugo Drax at the card table, on a mission ...

Synopsis Published in 1848, the year before David Copperfield, Dombey and Son heralds the masterpieces of Dickens’s maturity while creating an atmo...

Synopsis Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, d...

Synopsis Lord of the Rings: Single Volume Second Edition with Index and Appendices - hard to find 1994 edition with Gandalf on the front cover. The...

Synopsis Number 5 in The Guardian's 100 Best Novels. . . . Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, l...

Synopsis The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and...

Synopsis When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days...

Synopsis The Two Towers is the second of the three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings. It all takes place in the fictional universe of...

Synopsis Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Cap...

Synopsis Complete & Unabridged. With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Richard Hannay fi...

Synopsis With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Jules Verne had that rare storyteller's gift...

Synopsis "A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead . . ." "This is a record of hate...

Synopsis The Original Manuscript Edition. Every Christmas, the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its ext...

Synopsis This, his first novel, Crome Yellow, is quite far from a sci-fi novel, being instead of the species of British manor satires. On vacation ...

Synopsis The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of t...

Synopsis Subtitled : An Entertainment. Designed to appeal to the booklover, The Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift...

Synopsis Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of t...

Synopsis With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. James was a master of the novella - the kind of tal...

Synopsis Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a d...

Synopsis The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late...

Details Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback Condition : Very Good Category : Fiction - Classics Published : 1945 (This Ed. 2000 - Penguin Classic...

Synopsis Emily Brontë's only novel, a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense a...

Synopsis Written by Tolkien for his own children, the story of Bilbo Baggins' quest to raid the treasure hoard of the dragon Smaug the Magnificent ...

Synopsis War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable proces...

Synopsis From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Ma...