Mansfield Park - Jane Austenová
Aged ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthier relations, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. However, life there is not as she imagined. Treated with disdain by three of her cousins, she finds…
Aged ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthier relations, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. However, life there is not as she imagined. Treated with disdain by three of her cousins, she finds…
Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A girls'' school, evacuated from London, has taken over Harefield Park. Miss…
The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time
Written as a passionate riposte to Talleyrand’s report to the French National Assembly, in which he declared that women needed only a domestic education, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the traditional view…
EDITED BY HANS WALTER GABLER WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY SCARLETT BARON AND JOHN BANVILLEIn this powerfully influential series of short stories, James Joyce captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and…
''the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts'' The greatest ''state of the nation'' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years…
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With a new introduction, this collection of Slavic tales is based on the oral storytelling traditions of the peoples of Eastern Europe, from the Polish and the Slovaks to the Macedonians, Croats, Czechs and Serbians,…
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“An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students.â€â€”John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University
Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first published book. It is at once a very personal account, and a vivid expose of hard lives weighed down by poverty in France and…
''There''s an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet.''Arthur Conan Doyle''s His Last Bow features a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories written at a time of growing tensions in Europe.…
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that…
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age tale of illusion, delusion and the American dream, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. JOIN…
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of FrankensteinPuffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable gift editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world - including this striking edition of Frankenstein. Victor Frankenstein has…
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Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text…
Appian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual…
An event to be celebrated, a Dostoesvsky translation that fully captures the literary achievements of the original.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that…
The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age.So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Jay Gatsby’s Long Island mansion throngs with the bright young things…
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text…
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning,…
Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings…