Quick view The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. None of the great Victorian novels is more vivid and readable than The Mayor of Casterbridge. Set in the heart of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The proverbial phrase 'life's little ironies' was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. Under the Greenwood Tree is Hardy's most bright, confident and optimistic novel. This delightful portrayal of a picturesque rural society, ting… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Charles P.C. Pettit. Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars.Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day, making us feel the impa… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century by David Stuart Davies Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative sn… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished and politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England, ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their e… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, Canterbury. The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to ge… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson (Alma Classics) Now: €7.50 MSRP: Was: One of Stevenson's most famous and enduringly popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy stree… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Alma Classics) Now: €7.50 MSRP: Was: An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that something dark is threatening her … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Tales of Horror by Edgar Allan Poe (Alma Classics) Now: €8.75 MSRP: Was: A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of noblemen during the time of the plague, a grieving lover awakens to find himself clutching a box of his be… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Alma Classics) Now: €8.75 MSRP: Was: The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a series of adventures and endure a n… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Alma Classics) Now: €8.75 MSRP: Was: From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll (Alma Classics) Now: €9.99 MSRP: Was: Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the fantastic tale of the young Alice's encounters with the White Rabbit, the Cheshir… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond.His crime? A wish to leave a small group of violent revolutionaries, from w… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio Now: €6.25 MSRP: Was: A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe.In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan v… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Dracula & Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker Now: €6.25 MSRP: Was: Dracula: Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University. 'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the whi… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view In A Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu Now: €6.25 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fiction, and can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story. In a Glass Dark… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Now: €6.25 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire. Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: The father of science fiction, Jules Verne, invites you to join the intrepid and eccentric Professor Liedenbrock and his companions on a thrilling and dramatic expedition as they travel down a secret tunnel in a volcano in Iceland… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Now: €4.99 MSRP: Was: With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous… Add to Cart The item has been added