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Around the World in Eighty Days
Author: Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780553213560

Jules Verne Great excitement and awe greeted its publication in 1873, and today Around the World in Eighty Days remains Jules Verne’s most successful novel. A daring wager by the... [view more]

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Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
Author: Frank MacShane (Editor)
ISBN: 9780231050807

1981 First Edition, Columbia University Press New York. Hard Cover: black cloth, near fine. No Dust Jacket. Endpapers: intact, clean and fine. Main Text Body: pp 501, clean and fine. Edges:... [view more]

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Modern Classics: George orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: George Orwell; Ben Pimlott (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780141187761

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian... [view more]

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The Annotated Alice
Author: Lewis Carroll
ISBN: 9780140013870

Let it be said at once that there is something preposterous about an annotated Alce. Writing in 1932, on the hundred year anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birthg, G.K.Chesterton voiced his 'dreadul... [view more]

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Mrs Fry's Diary
Author: Stephen Fry
ISBN: 9781444720778

Stephen Fry's secret wife speaks out at last...Enjoyed a nice cuppa this morning with a HobNob and Jeremy Kyle. There was a woman on there who'd been married 16 years without realising her husband... [view more]

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Collected Stories of O. Henry
Author: O. Henry
ISBN: 9780553213966

One of the most prolific and widely read short-story writers of our time, O. Henry transformed the mundane occurrences of everyday life into hundreds of stories so popular they have gone out of... [view more]

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The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings
Author: Angie Errigo; Paul Simpson (Editor); Helen Rodiss (Editor); Michaela Bushell (Editor)
ISBN: 9781843532750

This new Rough Guide to The Lord Of The Rings is a key to everything Middle-earth: a must read for Tolkien enthusiasts and a revelation for audiences of the motion picture trilogy. Features include:... [view more]

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Books
Author: Gerald Donaldson
ISBN: 9780714822365

A look into books from the history of how they are made, there contents and Bibliotypes.... [view more]

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The Witches of Eastwick
Author: John Updike
ISBN: 9780140102185

In a quiet town of Eastwick, where nothing ever changes, 3 beautiful women are about to discover powers they never thought they had. Now the man of their dreams is here to stay for a spell. He... [view more]

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Love, Again
Author: Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9780586092286

The story of Sarah Durham a sixty-year-old producer and founder of a leading fringe theatre who commissions a play based on the journals of Julie Vairon a beautiful and wayward 19th century mulatto... [view more]

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Lost in a Good Book
Author: Jasper Fforde
ISBN: 9780340733578

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually... [view more]

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Author: Edgar Allan Poe; Harold Beaver (Contribution by); Jules Verne
ISBN: 9780140430974

From the author who introduced readers to chilling tales of murder comes a novella based on factual accounts of a haunting, mutinous high-seas adventure. What begins with a young Nantucket man... [view more]

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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Author: Francois Rabelais; M. A. Screech (Translator, Introduction by, Notes by)
ISBN: 9780140445503

The Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9780831795047

Includes the major works by one of the greatest names in literature. Namely, "Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol" and "A Tale of Two Cities." This Library of Literary Classics edition... [view more]

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Clarissa - Or the History of a Young Lady
Author: Samuel Richardson; Angus Ross (Editor, Foreword by, Contribution by, Notes by); Samuel Richardson
ISBN: 9780140432152

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his... [view more]

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Signs and Wonders
Author: Marina Warner
ISBN: 9780099437727

Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays like 'The Bitch Route 13', she has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators... [view more]

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Memoirs of a Geisha
Author: Arthur Golden
ISBN: 9780701169695

In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most... [view more]

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Author: Lewis Carroll; Hugh Haughton (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by); John Tenniel (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780140433173

Includes the two celebrated Alice stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, together with Carroll's manuscript version, Alice's Adventures Underground.... [view more]

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Jane Eyre
Author: Charlotte Brontë; Susan Cockcroft (Editor); Judith Baxter (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780521568654

"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped." After a wretched childhood, the orphaned Jane Eyre seeks her fortune as a governess, and meets the dark, mysterious Mr. Rochester. It sounds like a... [view more]

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Foucault's Pendulum
Author: Umberto Eco
ISBN: 9780330314978

Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on the mystic and the occult, are inspired by an extraordinary conspiracy story told to them by a strange colonel to have some... [view more]

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