Tell-Tale Heart: : Little Black Classic by Edgar Allan Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics Ser.
'Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was a groan of mortal terror ...the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul.' Stories about murder, mystery and madness, portraying the author's feverish imagination at its creative height. Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madnes ...Show more
Old Nurse's Story: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #39 by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...' A phantom child roams the Northumberland moors, while a host of fairytale characters gone to seed gather in the dark, dark woods in these two surprising tales of the uncanny from ...Show more
How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #22 by Johann Peter Hebel
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Category: Classics
'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!"' Written for a local German journal and published in 1811, these fabulous, funny, jewel-like miniature tales describe con men, tricksters, disasters, murders, rascals and lovers, and include ...Show more
Of Street Piemen: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #26 by Henry Mayhew
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich' Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create the first ever work of mass social ...Show more
Autumn by Ali Smith
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Category: Classics | Series: Seasonal
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning author of How to be both Fusing Keatsian mists and mellow fruitfulness with the vitality, the immediacy and the colour-hit of Pop Art - via a bit of very contemporary skulduggery and skull-diggery - Autumn is ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' This collection of much-loved folk tales feat ...Show more
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Leather Bound) by Jules Verne
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
A gorgeous edition of Jules Verne's landmark of science fiction and wonder, featuring full-colour art by Milo Winter. When Professor Pierre Aronnax and harpoonist Ned Land join an expedition to hunt a fierce 'whale' that has been sinking ships, they end up as captives of Captain Nemo, who prowls the sea ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soo ...Show more
Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edgar Allen Poe
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark stimulus of Poe's gothic tales with gleeful appreciation of their macabre and otherworldly qualities, claiming ...Show more
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
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Category: Classics | Series: Canons
'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer 'Remarkable ...A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches' WILLIAM BOYD Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A w ...Show more
The 120 Days of Sodom by The Marquis de Sade
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Category: Classics
"The 120 Days of Sodom is Sade's masterpiece. A still unsurpassed catalogue of sexual abberrations and the first systematic exploration of the psychopathology of sex, it was written during Sade's imprisonment and then lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789. Later rediscovered, the manuscript re ...Show more
Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics
2016 CHARLOTTE BRONTE BICENTENARY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield ...Show more