Ellis Peters The third omnibus edition of Ellis Peters' compulsive and bestselling mediaeval whodunnits.The Sanctuary Sparrow: Sudden drama strikes the Benadictine monastery at Shrewsbury when a young man, pursued by...

T Lobsang Rampa T. Lobsang Rampa was preordained to be a Tibetan priest, a sign from the stars that could not be ignored. When he left his wealthy home to...

Edited by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Storytime magic casts its spell in this treasury of time-honored tales from many lands. Handed down from one generation to another are such delightful stories...

Ben JonsonThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from...

Alexandre Dumas 'D'Artagnan lunged at him with such a furious thrust that, if he had not made a quick leap backwards, he would probably have joked for the last time'Young...

Jacopo StoppaIncludes Turner's works from National Gallery, London; National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), London; Tate Britain, London; University Museum, Liverpool; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Museum...

Marco Polo Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the...

Peter Eldin126 pagesPublished 1976 by Armada Books

EM Cioran In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster...

Thomas Hardy Anne Garland, who lives with her widowed mother in a mill owned by Miller Loveday, has three suitors: the local squire's nephew Festus and the miller's two sons,...

Henry James 'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window, where, at the sight of me, it stopped short'Oscar Wilde called...

Henry James Real thing --Figure in the carpet --Turn of the screw --Tree of knowledge --Maud-Evelyn --Beast in the jungle --Jolly corner. January 1, 1996 by Konemann