Anna Karenina
Love... it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties— to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society...Paperback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAnna Karenina
In 1872, the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This event provided Tolstoy with the inspiration he needed to compose what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written. In writing Anna Karenina, he moved away from the vast historical sweep of War and Peace to portray, with extraordinary...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAll the Devils Are Here
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PARADE MAGAZINE - ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS AARP'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL CRIMEREADS - ONE OF THE BEST TRADITIONAL MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR GLOBE AND MAIL - TOP 100 BOOKS OF THE YEAR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR KIRKUS REVIEWS - ONE OF THE...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat. We're all mad here. The Alice books are two of the most translated, most quoted, and best-known books in the world, but what exactly are they? Apparently delightful, innocent fantasies for children, they are also complex textures of mathematical, linguistic, and...Paperback$3400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Haunting in Venice [Movie Tie-In]
Enjoy Agatha Christie's beloved classic, Hallowe'en Party—the inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh—with a new introduction by Michael Green, screenwriter of the film. When a Halloween party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a surly thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Farewell to Arms
The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: Fascinating... serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author's process and evolution. In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway tells the poignant story of an American ambulance driver...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Doll's House
Norwegian-born Henrik Ibsen's classic play about the struggle between independence and security still resonates with readers and audience members today. Often hailed as an early feminist work, the story of Nora and Torvald rises above simple gender issues to ask the bigger question: To what extent have we sacrificed our selves for the sake of social customs and to protect...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
This classic, hailed as one of Twain's finest comic novels, explores what results when 19th century USA meets 6th century England. 220 illustrations. Introduction by Roy Blount Jr. With commentary, notes, and reading group guide. When referencing the title, it is best to use A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Christmas Carol (Deluxe Gift Edition)
Charles Dickens' timeless novella, A Christmas Carol, is a ghost story that celebrates the Christmas spirit through its iconic characters — Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Our elegant gift edition features Arthur Rackham's classic illustrations. With archival-quality printing, this compact volume is designed for both portability and longevity....Hardback$3600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Christmas Carol (Collector's Edition) (Illustrated) (Laminated Hardback with Jacket)
Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket - 2 Bonus Stories! On a cold Christmas Eve in Victorian London, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his late business partner, Jacob Marley, who warns him that his greed and selfishness will lead to a doomed afterlife unless he reforms. Scrooge is haunted by three more spirits, who show him...Hardback$11500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story follows a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from a supernatural visit by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet...Paperback$3100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Christmas Carol
This classic 1843 tale by Charles Dickens features all your favourite characters in their original telling: Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the rest. This hard cover edition is a facsimile of A Christmas Carol as first published in 1843, which means it includes the original illustrations, in full colour, by John Leech. While the cloth cover cannot be reproduced...Hardback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Bear Called Paddington
The classic novel about Paddington--who's now a major movie star! Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Peru when the Browns first met him in Paddington Station. Since then, their lives have never been quite the same... for ordinary things become extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved. First published in 1958, A Bear Called Paddington is the...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks1984
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... This 75th Anniversary Edition includes: A New Introduction by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of Take My Hand, winner of the 2023 NAACP Image...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGreat Gatsby and Other Works
Three of the great American novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the incomparable chronicler of the Jazz Age, are all together in one keepsake volume. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most acclaimed novels of the twentieth century, and literary scholars regard him as one of the finest American writers of all time. His stories were those of the “Lost...Hardback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksWinnie-the-Pooh: Advent Calendar
A stunning, festive collection of 24 classic stories and poetry to celebrate the holiday season, from the original books by A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard. One fine winter’s day when Piglet was brushing away the snow in front of his house, he happened to look up, and there was Winnie-the-Pooh. Celebrate 100 years of Winnie-the-Pooh in 2026! Count down to...Set$3999Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Jul 2026Pre-orderTrue History of the Kelly Gang
The unrivalled telling of the legend as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series. As he flees the police, Ned Kelly scribbles his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose. To his pursuers he is a thief and a murderer. To his own people he's a hero for opposing the English. Ned, who saw his...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-orderOh, The Places You’ll Go! Colouring Book
Let your imagination take you away in this incredible colouring book, featuring whimsical scenes and inspirational quotes based on Dr. Seuss’s beloved classic, Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! Be inspired by the world and all of life's adventures in this celebration of Dr. Seuss's classic tale,...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1699Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-orderJane Eyre
A stunning hardcover edition of the classic gothic romance, with exquisite cover art by Anna Bond of lifestyle brand Rifle Paper Co. Orphaned Jane Eyre endures an unhappy childhood, hated by her aunt and cousins and then sent to the comfortless Lowood School. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love...Hardback$3600Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-orderAdvent Calendar Book Collection
A pre-Christmas gift with 24 books that will keep young readers enchanted. Count down the days to Christmas with magical tales of princes and princesses, elves and emperors, and many more enchanting characters. This luxury advent calendar contains a beautifully illustrated storybook behind each window. As the big day approaches, there are plenty of festive treats, including The 12 Days...Novelty book$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-orderTheir Eyes Were Watching God T
"A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don't know how to live properly." -- Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksPhantom of the Opera
The wildest and most fantastic of tales. - New York Times Book Review. The novel from the early 20th century that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. In the 1880s, in Paris, the Palais Garnier Opera House is believed haunted. One night, a young woman, Christine, is asked to sing in place of the Opera's leading soprano,...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksOne Hundred Years of Solitude
Now a Netflix original series! One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." --William Kennedy,...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGoodnight Moon
This gift box with the classic board book plus a cuddly stuffed bunny makes a special gift for holidays, birthdays, baby showers, and more. In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. Goodnight room, goodnight moon. And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room—to the picture of the three little bears sitting...Board book$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGoodnight Moon
In this classic of children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day. In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in...Hardback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksBread and Jam for Frances
The classic funny I Can Read story about a stubborn little badger with very particular tastes in food. Frances is a fussy eater. In fact, the only thing she likes is bread and jam. She won't touch her squishy soft-boiled egg. She trades away her chicken-salad sandwich at lunch. She turns up her nose at boring veal cutlets. Unless her...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. Autobiographical in tone, Joyce’s tale of Stephen Dedalus’ journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of...Paperback$2700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Wind in the Willows
The tales of Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad. When Mole goes boating with the Water Rat instead of spring-cleaning, he discovers a new world. As well as the river and the Wild Wood, there is Toad's craze for fast travel which leads him and his friends on a whirl of trains, barges, gipsy caravans and motor cars and even into...Paperback$4100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksGood Girl, Bad Blood
The New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling, brilliantly crafted crime-thriller sequel to the no.1 debut of 2019, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES. Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksAlice in Wonderland and Other Classic Adventures
Featuring beautiful hand-painted cover art from artist Laci Fowler, this deluxe edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Other Classic Adventures is a must-have for book lovers and literature fans. Perfect for dreamers, thinkers, and lovers of timeless adventures, these stories remind us that the impossible just might be possible—if only we believe. Discover the timeless magic of Lewis...Hardback$4399Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-orderThe Gardens
Pre-order this gripping domestic psychological thriller, full of shocking family secrets, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell and C.L. Taylor in 2026! It might look idyllic, but the secrets buried there are deadly… When human bones are found in the garden attached to the glamorous London home where she grew up, Jess McIntyre prepares to receive the news she has...Paperback$2899Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableOut 28 Jul 2026Pre-orderWe
The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning New Yorker journalist Masha Gessen. Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksVillette
A new life beckons for Lucy Snowe. Leaving England and her past behind, she arrives in the French town of Villette, equipped only with a sharp tongue, a lively imagination, and an independent spirit. She soon finds work as a teacher, coping with a fierce headmistress and a classroom of unruly, coquettish schoolgirls. But Villette has even greater challenges in...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Complete Short Stories of A. A. Milne
The first complete collection of A.A. Milne's short stories, including several never published before. A.A. Milne's real passion lay beyond Winnie-the-Pooh, as this new prose collection reveals. Collected in full for the first time, including a number previously unpublished, here are his complete short stories and sketches for grownups. They are an epiphany. These 50 stories show Milne to have...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksQuantum of Menace
Filled with wit and verve, Vaseem Khan brings his vibrant and dynamic style to this spin-off cosy crime series set in the world of James Bond. Charming, drily humorous, and intelligently crafted, Quantum of Menace, the first in the Q mystery books, will appeal to Bond fans, readers of Murder Before Evensong, The Thursday Murder Club and Slow Horses novels,...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMan of My Dreams
Brilliant . . . A fantastic page-turner Katy Brent, author of HOW TO KILL MEN AND GET AWAY WITH IT THEY'RE A PERFECT MATCH. BUT IS SHE ABOUT TO GET BURNED? Ivy Harcourt's been as unlucky in love as she's been successful in writing. A bestselling romance author with a sad relationship track, it's pretty clear there are no good...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksLet's Find Momo Outdoors!
Explore the great outdoors with Momo, the adorable border collie, and his new puppy companion, Boo, in this bright, friendly board book! In this follow-up to Let's Find Momo!, spend a day with Momo as he sets off on a nature adventure. From the mountains to the beach to camping under the stars, young readers will delight in finding Momo...Board book$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Wind in the Willows in 20 Minutes a Day
Age range 6 to 10 Reading with your kids has a profound impact on their development, and now it's easier than ever! In The Wind in the Willows in 20 Minutes a Day, the unabridged story of Rat, Mole, Badger, and the indefatigable Toad is broken down into easy, twenty-minute chunks—perfect for daily read-alouds. Thoughtful questions after each passage boost...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years and are now widely studied. This four-volume set includes scholarly editions of her four novels, in which her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage offers an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time. At the time of...Set$99900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe King in Yellow
Reader, have you ever wondered who struck fear into the heart of H. P. Lovecraft? It was Robert Chambers. Now, the terror visits you. A wicked link in a terrifying lineage, the tales contained in The King in Yellow. Welcome, dear reader, to Carcosa. Edited with notes and an introduction by John Edgar Browning.Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe History of Lady Sophia Sternheim
The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim is the best-known novel of Sophie von La Roche, a German 18th-century woman writer. The plot reflects typical 18th-century concerns: the value of sentiment and the importance of virtue in attaining a good life. The publication of this novel reflects a recent revival of interest in the author.Hardback$27100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Fox and the Hound
This classic, award-winning novel and the basis for the animated Disney movie is "a masterpiece, it is tops in the field of animal books" (Omaha World-Herald). Winner of the Dutton Animal Book Award Winner of the Athenaeum Literary Award Reader's Digest Book Club Two animals on opposite sides of the hunt—one a loyal, domesticated companion, the other a wily, solitary...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTales of Mean Streets
A brilliant evocation of a narrow, close-knit community—that of the streets of London's East End in the 1890s. Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison chronicles their adventures with sympathy, humour, and a sense of both the tragedies and comedies to be found in the "mean streets".Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksStories and Tales
A true classic of Western literature, Stories and Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, arguably the most notable children's writer of all, has delighted young and old for generations. This unique collection was first translated for George Routledge over 130 years ago. Completely reset, but preserving the original, beautiful illustrations by A.W. Bayes, engraved by the masters of Victorian book illustration,...Hardback$22400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksMalory Towers: Upper Fourth
Welcome to Malory Towers, where there's more to life than lessons! Darrell Rivers is delighted to be Head Girl of her form - and this year her sister Felicity joins Malory Towers too. Most of the time, Darrell couldn't be prouder of Felicity, but she's much less keen on her sister's new friend, troublemaker and rebel June. With twins Connie...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFrankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
For years, Dr. Victor Frankenstein labours to create a new race of intelligent beings. But when he succeeds, Dr. Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly patchwork being he has brought to life, and he abandons his creation, setting off a chain of events that will lead to murder, despair, and bitter loneliness. This is a deluxe, lavish edition that transformed...Hardback$8000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksFanny Hill
As part of the Smith & Taylor Classics collection, this edition preserves Fanny Hill in its full provocative force, complete with new critical commentary. Banned from publication in the United States until 1966 for its assumed obscenity, immorality, and lack of literary merit, Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749), is a novel considered to be the...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksTai-Pan
The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell. "There can only be one Tai-Pan." Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world's largest Far East trading company. He is now...Hardback$9700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksShogun, Part Two
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shōgun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series! Shōgun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksShogun, Part One
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series! Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part One contains...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksShogun
The classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell. After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into...Hardback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Prince of Tides
"A masterpiece that can compare with Steinbeck's East of Eden. ... Some books make you laugh; some make you cry; some make you think. The Prince of Tides is a rarity: It does all three." -- Detroit Free Press A modern American classic and a sweeping family saga that spans decades, this powerful work of Southern literary fiction is the...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Brothers Karamazov
In 1880, Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, and complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist; Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosha, the mystic; and twisted, cunning Smerdyakov, the bastard child. Frequently lurid,...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksA Very Cold Winter
'Cause for celebration.' — Jhumpa Lahiri A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy's most significant women writers. Fausta Cialente (1898–1994) was a novelist, journalist, political activist, and one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Though the fascists censored her early work, she continued as an active member in the anti-fascist movement...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Master and Margarita
A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgakov's crowning achievement, skilfully blending magical and realistic elements, grotesque situations and major ethical concerns. Written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign and a...Paperback$4600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksLolita
The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. With a new introduction by Claire Messud. “The conjunction of a sense of humour with a sense of horror [results in] satire of a very special kind.” —The...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe War of the Worlds
Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this thrilling science fiction classic. The War of the Worlds tells the story of the Martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late-nineteenth-century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written—a world with great fears for its security and long-term stability....Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Tiger Killers
The Tiger Killers is the second volume of a new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. Like the first volume, The Broken Seals, it follows the fortunes of various outlaw heroes as they move through a world of treacherous officials, jealous toadies, bullying gaolers, hired assassins, foolhardy generals, and cannibalistic innkeepers. This volume contains...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Tale of Genji
About Dennis Washburn's translation "Washburn's version of Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece is lucid and engaging, irresistibly drawing the reader further and further into the story and the exquisite world it creates for us of Japan's Heian court. A fresh and invaluable The Tale of Genji for those of us reuniting with a familiar friend and those encountering it for the very...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Nose and Other Stories
Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionised Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Madness of Waiting
Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa’s famous novel, Umrao Jaan Ada, created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalised account of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned Lucknow courtesan and poetess of the same name. Considered by many as the first Urdu novel, it remains highly popular today, and has been the basis for three films and...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Lottery in Babylon
"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him – are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation." The affairs of Babylon are dictated by...Paperback$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Last Man
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley. Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington. A rich selection of contextual documents—twenty-six in all—pertaining to The Last Man's background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other "Last Man" texts. Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Goldsmith and the Master Thief
Twins Jiacomo and Laurenzo look exactly the same—but they are as different as night and day. Hard-working Laurenzo wants to make beautiful things and becomes a goldsmith; Jiacomo loves travel and adventure and uses his wiles to become an excellent thief. The goldsmith and the master thief can easily be mistaken for one another, and this gets them both into...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Dragon King It Was That Died
The Dragon King It Was That Died tells the tale of the Dragon King below the Jing River, who defied the orders of the Jade God of the Heavens and faced execution as a result. His ghost, harbouring resentment towards the Tang Emperor Taizong for failing to save him, drags the Emperor to the Underworld. What would the Emperor see...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Country of the Blind
"Over the mountains I come," said Nunez, "out of the country beyond there—where men can see. From near Bogota, where there are a hundred thousands of people, and where the city passes out of sight." One of the acknowledged masters of speculative fiction, H.G. Wells conducts in this short story a disconcerting thought experiment. What would become of a community...Book$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksPride and Prejudice
The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This edition also includes biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the fourth edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things). Also included are fifteen critical essays,...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksPersuasion
Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane Austen's remarkable career. It is her most passionate and introspective love story. This richly illustrated and annotated edition brings her last completed novel to life with previously unmatched vitality. In the same format that so rewarded readers of Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, it offers running commentary on the...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksMonkey Borrows the Palmleaf Fan
Tripitaka and his three disciples, Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy were chosen to undertake a pilgrimage to India, during which they came across all sorts of dangers and difficulties. This time, the Flaming Mountain blocked their way, and they needed a little help from the Princess Iron Fan and Bull Demon, well, parents of the Red Boy, who wanted to eat...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksMansfield Park
Jane Austen's most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances' mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled Opinions of Mansfield Park. Is this novel's dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen's own mother asserted) "insipid"? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does...Hardback$11000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksLucy Carmichael
Celebrating 90 Years of Penguin Michael Joseph publishing with the Mermaid collection - Margaret Kennedy's Lucy Carmichael with a foreword by Lucy Mangan. 'People seem to get over things, don't they? I don't know how, but they do - ordinary people. I'm very ordinary, so I expect I shall do what they do.' Lucy Carmichael is jilted at the altar....Paperback$3600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksJungle Book
Follow the adventures of Mowgli, a boy adopted by a family of wolves, and meet Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, who teach him how to survive in the jungle, in Rudyard Kipling's classic adventure. Complete and unabridged, this padded hardback gift edition of Jungle Book features the beautiful illustrations of Rafael Mayani throughout.Hardback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDracula's Guest
"I felt a warm rasping at my throat, then came a consciousness of the awful truth, which chilled me to the heart and sent the blood surging up through my brain." In this intriguing literary fragment—published seventeen years after Bram Stoker's most famous novel—an English visitor to southern Germany suffers a terrifying ordeal on Walpurgis Nacht: the night when, according...Book$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksThe Illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle published his last tale of Sherlock Holmes in 1927. That same year, The Strand Magazine—the periodical in which most of the Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared—sponsored a competition for its readers to choose the twelve best stories featuring The Great Detective. Doyle himself participated, and in his essay "How I Made My List," published in the magazine's...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableOut 28 Jul 2026Pre-orderClassic Starts®: The Wind in the Willows
An abridged and illustrated chapter book retelling of The Wind in the Willows, part of the bestselling Classic Starts series that has sold more than 8 million copies! Follow the delightful escapades of Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger as they make their way through the seasons while racing motorcars through the English countryside, getting lost in the Wild Wood, and...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableOut 22 Sep 2026Pre-orderWe of the Never Never
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Inherited through the line of the berserker Angantr and his war-loving daughter Hervor, the ever-lethal, shining sword Tyrfing and its changes of hands frame the uncanny story of The Saga of Hervor and Heirek. A second heroic saga, Hrlf Kraki and His Champions, recounts the daring deeds of the members and entourage of the ancient Danish house of Skjoldung. Passed...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten
Welcome to The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten. In these pages, you will find a host of weird, supernatural tales featuring ghosts, witches, vampires, ominous crossroads, houses with secrets, haunted paintings, occult detectives, and things that go bump in the night. The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten features vintage stories by masters of occult fiction, including...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksThe Prophet's Wife
A lyrical novel exploring the origins of the Mormon faith, recommended by the New York Times Book Review. “Superb... a first-rate historical novel” – The Denver Post “A masterpiece ... perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Geraldine Brooks” – Kris Waldherr, author of The Lost History of Dreams In 1825, in rural Pennsylvania, Emma Hale marries an itinerant treasure-digger,...Paperback$4700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksThe Parasite and Other Tales of Terror
A haunting collection of short stories from famed Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Nine spine-tingling stories from the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Mournful cries in an ice-bound sea, a potion that allows the user to commune with ghosts, an Egyptian priest who cannot die, and a mesmerist of unrivalled power. Brace yourself for these and other chilling encounters...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks