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Little Women

The four March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been dra...

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature; Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece has a lasting effect ...

The Great Gatsby

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouri...

The Art of War

For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with endurin...

The Little Prince

Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells him the ...

1984

Ravaged by years of war and civil conflict, Britain has changed its name to Airstrip One and become part of Oceania one of the three tota...

The Master and Margarita

Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accomp...

Moby Dick

When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Includes pictures, notes and an extensive section on Oscar Wilde's life and works. Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hal...

Emma

Emma is considered by many readers to be Jane Austen's crowning achievement, a timeless comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on wo...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy...

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is the tragic story of Countess Anna Karenina, a married noblewoman and socialite, and her affair with the affluent Count V...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole - and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even strang...

Frankenstein

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer...

The Idiot

After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason, Prince ...

Animal Farm

Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a r...

Notes from Underground

The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official, has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity and c...

Dead Souls

A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making...

Tales from Russian Folklore

Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of the Brothers Grimm in Germany, Alexander Afanasyev embarked on the...

Oblomov

The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the dying class of the landed gentry, who spends most of his time lyin...

The Secret Garden

After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she leads a...

Belle and Sébastien - The Child of the Mountains

The son of a gypsy woman, Sébastien is found as a newborn baby in the Alps and brought up by César and his grandchildren Angélina and Jea...

The Gambler

Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his...

Eugene Onegin

When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes...

Wuthering Heights

The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnsh...

A Little Princess

When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather like a pri...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often negl...

The House of the Dead

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for killing his...

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled ...

A Hero of Our Time

On his travels through the wild mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, the narrator of A Hero of Our Time chances upon the veteran soldier ...

Lassie Come-Home

Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But when the f...

Don Quixote

When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself "Don Quixote" and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear ...

Jane Eyre

She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe ...

The Complete Peter Pan

The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary Darling's bed...

Decameron

In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themse...

The Withering World

First translation of Marai's poems into English. Here presented in a dual-language edition. Although he is now mostly remembered as a nov...

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love ...

The White Guard

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the...

Dracula

'Awareness of Dracula' as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one o...

Leonardo da Vinci - The Resurrection of the Gods

This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance's greatest figure traces Leonardo's early development as an artist and court figure...

Plays

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world thea...

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility is famously characterised as the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive natur...

Crime and Punishment

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room...

Gone with the Wind

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara soon realizes that young ...

Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for w...

Anne of Green Gables

Anne is an orphan with a penchant for daydreaming and distinctive flaming-red hair that catches the eye of everyone she meets. She is ove...

Fathers and Children

Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published i...

The Trial

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

'"Come along, Toto," she said. "We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again."' Swept away from...

Heidi: Lessons at Home and Abroad

Orphaned at an early age, Heidi has been brought up by her mother s sister Dete in Switzerland. Having been offered a job in Frankfurt, h...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class baronet husband, Sir Clifford Ch...

Persuasion

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. W...

Dearest Father

In this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obses...

The Godfathers - Saját képpel!

The Godfathers

THE FOUR LITTLE GIRLS AND DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL

In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation of Pari...

Good to be God - Dedikált

Tibor Fischer idegenben született hazánkfia. Szülei 1956-ban vándoroltak ki Angliába. Kezdőként sokáig volt munkanélküli, ma már befutott...

The Thirteenth Apostole

White Man Falling

This winner of the Goss First Novel Award 2006 is a tale of domestic catastrophe, accidental crime-busting, deluded matchmaking, and myst...

Good to be god - Dedikált - Számozott