Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural... Lees meer

The Odyssey

Homer, Anthony Verity

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• "Tell me, Muse, of the man of many turns, who was driven / far and wide after he had sacked the sacred city of Troy" Twenty years after setting out to... Lees meer

Snow White and Other Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

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• The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant ... Lees meer

Scouting for Boys

Robert Baden-Powell

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• "A scout must always be prepared at any moment to do his duty, and to face danger in order to help his fellow-men." A startling amalgam of Zulu war-cr... Lees meer

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nicolas Pasternak Slater

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• "One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!" A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (18... Lees meer

Victorian Fairy Tales

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• 'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period,... Lees meer

The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White, Anne Secord

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• 'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789... Lees meer

The Mabinogion

Sioned Davies

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• Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest a... Lees meer

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

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• For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears r... Lees meer

Collected Ghost Stories

M R James

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• "I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mold, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own..." Considered by many to be the most terrifying ... Lees meer

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nicolas Pasternak Slater

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• "One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!" A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (18... Lees meer

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

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• Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will tha... Lees meer

The Poetic Edda

Carolyne Larrington

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• "She sees, coming up a second time, earth from the ocean, eternally green; the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting... Lees meer

The Collected Peter Pan

J M Barrie

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• Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in... Lees meer

The Complete Fairy Tales

Charles Perrault, Christopher Betts

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• "Oh grandmama, what great big teeth you have!" Charles Perrault's versions gave classic status to the humble fairy tale, and it is in his telling that... Lees meer

The Collected Peter Pan

J M Barrie

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• 'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie f... Lees meer

The Origins of Science Fiction

Dr Michael (Leiden University, Leiden University, Lecturer) Newt

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• 'Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous ... Lees meer

The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror f... Lees meer

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy, Louise And Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker

• Hardcover | Engels | Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
• Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of R... Lees meer