Charles Dickens This is an ideal present, to give or receive. It includes Dickens's three most popular Christmas tales: 'A Christmas Carol' (1843), 'The Chimes' (1844) and 'The Cricket on...

George Du Maurier 1894. With illustrations by the author. Artist and writer, Trilby is his best remembered work. The novel begins: It was a fine, sunny, showery day in April. The big...

Isaac Babel Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them....

William Shakespeare An international team of scholars offers: modernised, easily accessible texts ample but unobtrusive academic guidance attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history informative...

  William Shakespeare David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind...

EM Forster A wonderful story of questioning, disillusionment, and conversion, Where Angels Fear to Tread tells the story of a prim English family's encounter with the foreign land of Italy....

Arthur Conan Doyle The hit BBC series Sherlock has introduced a whole new generation of fans to Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective. In this unique collection, Sherlock co-creators Steven Moffat...

A Conan Doyle The legend of a supernatural hound attracts Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson to the gloomy village wasteland in England. They are there to investigate the...

James A Michener   In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. Michener guides us through Alaska’s fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the...

John McGahern Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness, marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this...

Mark Twain Here is one of the greatest epic journeys of all time. Funny, satiric, and human, it follows Huck from a boy's innocence to a man's wisdom. January 1,...

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Marty will do anything to save his new friend Shiloh in this Newbery Medal–winning novel from Phillis Reynolds Naylor.When Marty Preston comes across a young beagle in...