CLASSICS

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeAs Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party, the appearance of a former suitor stirs thoughts aboutchoices she made long ago. Elsewhere in London, the...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeLines such as 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' and 'Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds' are among the...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeSilas Marner tells the story about a weaver and how his life changes. The story begins with Silas, who has been displaced from his former...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.A curse has hung over the Baskerville family for generations and the latest victim is Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the legendary gigantic hound be responsible...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Good Wives takes off about three years after where Little Women left off. Meg is about to get married, Jo is attempting to launch a...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie is a free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter spends his never-ending childhood having...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.The title, The Moonstone, refers to a brilliantly beautiful but flawed gem seized by a British officer in India. The officer brings it back to...

Part of the Chiltern Classics seriesOne of Mark Twain's best-known and most important novels tells the story of Huckleberry Finn's escape from his alcoholic and abusive father and Huck's adventurous...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeThe Phantom of the Opera tells the tale of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera House. Mesmerized by the talents and beauty...

William Shakespeare, A Very Peculiar History uniquely explores the life and works of the widely-regarded greatest writer of the English language. Through dispelling common myths (Could his father really not...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.In 1843 Charles Dickens took up his pen to begin his 'ghostly little book' and so created A Christmas Carol and the mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge,...

Part of the Chiltern Classics range.This edition of Homer's epic, Iliad, is from the Alexander Pope Translation, tells the story of the final year of the Trojan War. First written...

Part of the Chiltern Classics rangeSons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It traces emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and his...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a...

'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal...

An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. It tells of...

From its origins in the folk tale, through its evolution in response to changing social and political conditions to its current form, the Irish short story has retained its own...

A landmark modern classic about the Korean-American immigrant experience and the dawn of Los Angeles' KoreatownClay Walls tells the story of Haesu and Chun, immigrants who fled Japanese-occupied Korea for...

Ten years have passed since the fall of Troy. The surviving Greek warriors who destroyed that city have returned home. All except Odysseus, whose wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, await...

Discover the story of Homer's The Odyssey with this exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.'s Signature Gilded Editions series! The stunning Odyssey special edition features sprayed edges, color end...

Billy Liar is a regional comedy about a youth who attempts to escape his dull family life through fantasy.