"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart." After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth fro
Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury esta
A tour de force of wit and sparkling dialogue, Pride and Prejudice shows how the headstrong Elizabeth Bennet and the aristocratic Mr Darcy must have their pride humbled and their prejudices dissolved
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-M
Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical and conventional, the epitome of sense, desir
Oft-copied but never bettered, Jane Austen's Emma is a remarkable comedy of manners that follows the charming but insensitive Emma Woodhouse as she sets out on an ill-fated career of match-making in t
Tells the story of one man's secret battle against himself as he is tested and brought to breaking point, first at Gallipoli, then with his young wife in London, and finally in the trenches of the Wes
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop fables in a collection that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites
Tom has to spend the summer at his aunt's, and it seems as if nothing good will ever happen again. Then he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen - and everything changes. Outside the door is a g
A memoir of a Cambridge childhood. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of Gwen Raverat's (the grand-daughter of Charles Darwin) eccentric relations, and of Cambri
The Three Musketeers follows the career of an impoverished young gentleman, D’Artagnan, who sets off to Paris to seek fortune as a member of the king’s guard. Once there, he meets Porthos, Athos, and
The Wind in the Willows follows Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger from one adventure to the next—in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, to prison and back, to the Wild Wood. A story of animal cunning and hu
This is a new translation of The Art of War for the twenty-first century. As well as its historical importance, it is one of the most influential political and business books of our era. This edition
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in a marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks e
Arthur Rowe's mind is hamstrung by guilt - a Graham Greene speciality - and he stands aside from the war until he happens to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake at a charity fete. Fro
Cassandra Mortmain lives with her Bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her glamorous st
“A scrawny 13-year-old, all carrot-colored pigtails and outrageous chatter, Anne seems fated to go nowhere but back to the orphanage. Her new family, after all, ordered a boy and she was delivered by
The social comedies, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband offer a moving as well as witty dissection of society and its morals, with a sharp focus on sexual politics.
Love is one of the most enduring themes of literature, and now the Collector’s Library brings you a classic collection of firm favorites, poems half-remembered from our schooldays, and other notable a
This beautiful boxed set brings together four significant books about the First World War. It includes Robert Grave's great memoir Goodbye to All That, All Quiet on the Western Front, the finest novel
Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. Ove
One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal created a new thriller genre. It is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by
The story of Dorothy and her little dog Toto, who are carried away from Kansas by a cyclone to the wonderful world of Oz is famous the world over. On her journey she meets three companions – the Scar
Jane Austen’s best-loved novel is a memorable story about the inaccuracy of first impressions, about the power of reason, and above all, about the strange dynamics of human relationships and emotions
Depicts a young woman discovering herself, in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people, and what brings them together. In this book, the 'north and south' of the title are the Satanic mills of the i
Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who became Emperor despite his first passionate refusal, was the uncle and butt of the notorious Caligula, the husband, dupe and vengeful destroyer of the wicked Messal
Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh with advanced ideas about the education of her charges. In this story of the 1930s, Miss Brodie is in her prime
Pauline, Petrova and Posy are found as orphaned babies in different parts of the world by eccentric fossil collector and explorer Great-Uncle Matthew - 'Gum'. He adopts them, takes them to his London
Opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the u
Alice in Wonderland is one of the best-loved children’s stories in the world and has been translated into nearly fifty languages, and in several cases more than once. Sir John Tenniel’s beautiful illu
F Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. This title contains the four novels that he completed and his most f
Describes Tom's time at Rugby School from his first football match, through his troubled adolescence when he is savagely bullied by the unspeakable Flashman, to his departure for a wider world as a co
Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patrioti
Tells of a dystopian future - the machine has taken over the lives of men and it has an uncomfortable resonance when so much human activity depends on computers.
This is Fitzgerald’s first novel. The book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in litera
Includes short stories: "Best Ghost Stories", "Best Fairy Stories", "Celtic Fairy Tales" and "Tales of the Macabre". This new collection of detective stories of the golden age includes intriguing tale
An autobiographical trilogy of the poet Laurie Lee (1914-1997). It describes his life in the Gloucestershire village of Slad from his earliest years until he was twenty. It tells of thin winters, fat
Collects poems that are evocative of the blue hills of the poet's youth. In this half-imaginary land of lost content, the recurring theme is one of the helplessness of man against an achingly beautifu
Set in the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, postwar America, this collection of short stories and novellas shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre from low farce to shrewd social insi
