Many of these stories and poems reflect familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but there are also tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes.With an Afterword by David Pinching.
Stanley Hopkins and I stared in amazement . Something like a sneer quivered over the gaunt ... I have forged and tested every link of my chain , Professor Coram , and I am sure that it is sound . What your motives are or what exact part ...
Charles Dickens is, perhaps, the best-loved English novelist of all time.
The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley.Following his adventures foiling the plans of the Black Stone gang in "The Thirty-Nine Steps", Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and ...
In their restoration of a secret garden all their lives are changed for the better.With an Afterword by Anna South.
Brings together several stories: The Frog Who Became an Emperor from China, The Thee Billy Goats Gruff from Norway, Pinocchio from Italy as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault and Oscar Wilde ...
0000000000Lewis Carroll is best known for his two books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but he was a prolific author of fantasy and nonsense verse, which are represented here in the complete Sylvie and Bruno ...
Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by Ned Halley.
A disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano and, in a desperate attempt to have his love returned, takes drastic action.
More than ever he was resolved to consult Cunningham without loss of time . As he drove off to the station his aunt was arranging that Gabriel - Ernest should help her to entertain the infant members of her Sunday - school class at tea ...
No doubt Anna Sewell learned to love horses more and more through this self - imposed pleasure and duty . The following year Mrs Sewell took her children to Germany for a holiday , but Anna was left there for treatment which proved so ...
This volume contains all his timeless masterpieces from the four collections of his eerie tales: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), A Warning to the Curious and ...
This collection brings together all Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several long tales.
Before Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 , the separation of the seed from a pound of cotton cost an average day's labour . By means of his invention one negress was enabled to clean roolb daily ; and since then , the efficacy ...
This classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.
0000000000These fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles.
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles.
Their strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's delightful book has been translated into over ...