",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...
Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in...
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...
Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise, as he comes to the UK.Jack Reacher is alone, the way he likes...
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...
Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing ",Lark Rise",, ",Over To Candleford", and ",Candleford Green",, is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the...
Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon, and the charming...
'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied...
Based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer, this work offers insights into the mind of a killer and the obsession of the man...
Tells of the author's journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, this work depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts...
A collection of three plays including ",Rhinoceros",, ",The Chairs", , and ",The Lesson",....
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