Why has the mild mannered Dr Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr Hyde? And why are they never seen together?...
'A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from...
'The book is grand, beautiful, exciting and poignant ... It is full of poetical phrasing ... yet allows for the naughty spirit of childhood to...
'There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves'The Years is the...
Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map...
'Wright's unrelentingly bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, the human heart' James Baldwin...
A treasured children's classic, Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did is a vivid story of childhood bravery with a feisty heroine at its heart. Part of...
Written in 1948 and warning of things to come, Orwellâ€s dystopian novel is set in a totalitarian future, where history is rewritten and independent thought...
",Sleep, those little slices of death -- how I loathe them.",Behold: a selection of short stories from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe.From...
The first of a new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century...
Records the author's visits to the Aran Islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged ",The Playboy...
Not many writers introduce a phrase – let alone a whole idea – into the language. In Catch-22, Joseph Heller invented a motif for the...
Includes stories that are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, and full of eccentric unconventional situations....
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A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an...
Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our...
Howard's swashbuckling fantasy stories feature the adventures of the enigmatic Conan: a free barbarian from distant Cimmeria who ventures into the splendid kingdoms of the...
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright...
Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On...
New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel. Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a...
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