Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, young Jim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he has discovered a map...
'Wright's unrelentingly bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, the human heart' James Baldwin...
A treasured children's classic, Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did is a vivid story of childhood bravery with a feisty heroine at its heart. Part of...
Written in 1948 and warning of things to come, Orwellâ€s dystopian novel is set in a totalitarian future, where history is rewritten and independent thought...
",Sleep, those little slices of death -- how I loathe them.",Behold: a selection of short stories from the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe.From...
The first of a new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century...
Records the author's visits to the Aran Islands in 1898-1901, when he was gathering the folklore and anecdotes out of which he forged ",The Playboy...
'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a...
Not many writers introduce a phrase – let alone a whole idea – into the language. In Catch-22, Joseph Heller invented a motif for the...
Includes stories that are humorous, satiric, supernatural, and macabre, highly individual, and full of eccentric unconventional situations....
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A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an...
Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our...
Howard's swashbuckling fantasy stories feature the adventures of the enigmatic Conan: a free barbarian from distant Cimmeria who ventures into the splendid kingdoms of the...
The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright...
New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel. Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a...
A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses....
Flora Thompson's immortal trilogy, containing ",Lark Rise",, ",Over To Candleford", and ",Candleford Green",, is a heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the...
Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon, and the charming...
'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames'In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied...
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