CLASSICS

As a new expedition to Antarctica is planned a dark tale emerges of a previous, life-threatening adventure. Revealing hidden secrets, lost civilisations and alien origins, master storyteller H.P. Lovecraft indulges...

An original gothic masterpiece of madness, lust and terror. Dripping with dark and moody intent, Matthew Lewis introduces us to the sinful world of Ambrosio, a monk in an ominous...

Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's masterpiece The authoritative Hans Walter Gabler text; with a new introduction by Anne Enright. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses follows Leopold...

Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.Maggie Verver, a young...

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically...

Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered. But the device at the centre of the mystery is in the possession of two schoolboys and...

A charming and exquisite recreation of the miniature Sherlock Holmes story from the library of Queen Mary's famous Dolls' House, on display at Windsor Castle.This lavish cloth-bound gift edition faithfully...

A wonderful 150th-anniversary edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury in this beautiful award-winning interpretation.For a century and a half Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll's classic...

A stunning edition of Rudyard Kipling's century-old classic stories about Mowgli the man-cub, illustrated in exquisite detail by Nicola Bayley.First published in 1894, these three stories tell of Mowgli's upbringing...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, read Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics.Harry Morgan is a tough guy making his living during the Depression from his...

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly and mean-spirited old man. He treats family, coworkers, and strangers alike with distaste. But on Christmas Eve he receives a visit from the ghost of...

Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before "Twilight" and "True Blood", vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's...

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is an elegant, masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in old New York-now with a new introduction from acclaimed author...

'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists...

'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself'Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and...

'. . . the past was yesterday; the future, tomorrow; never, the next day'It's the 1870s and Bathsheba Everdene is a woman ahead of her time. Within the confines of...

Heart of the West's humorous and sentimental stories of sheep herders, cow punchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers offer the modern reader a window into the often mythologized...

Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes...

Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes...

Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes...

Handsomely produced in hardcover at a very affordable price, Barnes & Noble Signature Editions have been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. Each volume includes...

Inseparably associated with a point in history he claimed to despise, F. Scott Fitzgerald is both the quintessential Jazz-Age writer and perhaps the era's harshest critic.

Dante's Divine Comedy is one of the most highly regarded works of world literature and a classic that continues to inspire fiction and poetry today. Written between 1308 and 1321,...

Dickens' short novel is one of the most-loved works in the English language. This special pocket edition features an elegant bonded-leather binding, distinctive gilt edging and decorative endpapers. It is...

Revel in the magic of a Christmas tradition. The Nutcracker features the full text of Alexandre Dumas's "The History of a Nutcracker", the story that inspired the classic ballet. Lavishly...

Stepping far afield from his medical studies, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a human form he has fashioned from scavenged body parts. Horrified by his achievement, he turns his back...

This classic collection features 25 tales shaped by gothic's mood of menace and the macabre. In addition to the world-famous title novel, the anthology includes Horace Walpole's The Castle of...

In 1899 Kate Chopin stunned the literary world with thepublication of The Awakening,her tale of a woman who seeks personal fulfillment in a relationship outside ofher tradition-bound marriage and household....

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...