In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between...
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be...
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are...
'Everything was dead, everything unreal, the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence,...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater...
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the...
They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity's nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny...
Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.In 1845, Thoreau moved to a...
'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in...
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Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris, his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a...
‘I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life . . . ‘ The Confessions of...
‘“I'll not listen to reason,” she said, now in full possession of her voice, which had been rather choked with sobbing. ",Reason always means what...
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‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...’ Henry V is the final and most celebrated play of Shakespeare’s ‘history plays’. Prince...
‘“I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?” His soul repeated it again and again.’ Set against the backdrop of Britain...
‘Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!’ Jim is a...
‘We're their slaves as long as we can work, we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to...
‘People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.’ An epic study of provincial...
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