'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the...
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty...
'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I...
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. Seeking escape from their unfulfilling marriages and monotonous lives in 1920s England, two women...
The celebrated master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe brought his nightmare imaginings to life in classic stories told in a signature style. This volume...
From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the beauty and joy of reading, for anyone who has ever...
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. But is not the slave trade entirely a war with the heart of...
For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient...
The Misanthrope, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, The Miser, The Would-Be Gentleman, The Mischievous Machinations of Scapin, The Learned Women, The Imaginary Invalid. 'The...
In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired...
",The best of American short fiction", Spanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving...
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between...
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be...
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'Everything was dead, everything unreal, the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence,...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater...
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