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Children's Classic Tales by .
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Special Editions
Presents four children's books: "Tales from Shakespeare", "Tales from King Arthur", "Tales from the Arabian Nights", and "Tales of Troy and Greece".
Classic Romances by Bronte Austen
Category: Classic | Series: Special Editions
Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen constructed Pride & Prejudice with wit, social precision and an irresistible heroine. Beginning with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, it is a perfect ironic novel of manners. Persuasion Jane Austen's question 'What is persuasion?' - a firm bel ...Show more
Classic Short Stories (Wordsworth Collection) by VARIOUS
Category: Classic | Series: Special Editions
Poignant, wry, chilling, challenging, amusing, thought-provoking and always intriguing, these accomplished tales from the pens of great writers are object-lessons in the art of creating a literary masterpiece on a small canvas. From the straightforwardly anecdotal to the more analytical of human behavio ...Show more
Collected Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Wordsworth | Series: Wordsworth Special Editions
Few American novelists of the twentieth century have stayed as modern as F. Scott Fitzgerald. He gave a name to his age, 'the Jazz Age', but his reputation has outlived it. Gathered here are the five novels he wrote in his relatively short career, together with a number of the many short stories he wrot ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by WILDE OSCAR
Category: Fiction | Series: Special Editions
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Category: Classic | Series: Special Editions
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The T ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen (The Complete Fairy Tales) (PB) by Hans Christian Andersen
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Special Editions
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For ...Show more
Paperblanks Rembrandts 350th Anniv (Ultra Unlined) by Paperblanks
Category: Paperblanks | Series: Special Editions Ser.
One of the world's greatest painters, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was an equally accomplished etcher. The Dutch landscape provided him with inspiration for this piece, The Windmill (1641). Originally released as an Embellished Manuscript, we have brought back this journal design to honour Rembrandt o ...Show more
Rudyard Kipling Complete Children's Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Special Editions
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear.How did the Leopard get his spots? How did the Elephant get his trunk? In Just So Stories Kipling wittily supplies the answers to these and ...Show more
SELECTED WORKS OF G.K. CHESTERTON by CHESTERTON G.K.
Category: Classic | Series: Special Editions
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on to become not only one of the most prolific writers of all time but, in the opinion of ...Show more
Selected Works of H G Wells by H. G. Wells
Category: Classic | Series: Special Editions
H. G. Wells is often referred to as 'the father of science fiction' and this compendium of his stories contains two of his most well-known works in the genre, The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1897). In addition, the reader is treated to some stories of truly extraordinary dimensions: T ...Show more
Selected Works of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Special Editions
Contains: A Room of One's Own * To the Lighthouse * Between the Acts * Three Guineas * Mrs Dalloway * Jacob's Room * The Waves * The Years * Orlando Mrs Dalloway, the society hostess Clarissa, is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives ...Show more