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The looking glass and other stories
1,350 LPresented in a new translation by Stephen Pimenoff, ‘The Looking Glass’ is accompanied in this volume by thirty-four other short stories by Chekhov, some of them never translated before into English.
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
1,350 LThis volume includes Tom Sawyer, Detective, a sequel and pastiche of the detective genre, first published in 1896.
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Mansfield Park
1,350 LJane Austen’s third published novel was Mansfield Park. The story follows the young, poor protagonist Fanny Price who at age ten is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle Bertram at their grand estate of Mansfield Park. Growing up in their family circle, Fanny navigates love, loneliness and rivalry.
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1984
1,000 LArguably the greatest dystopian novel of all time and the most influential post-war work of fiction – which enriched the English language with words such as “Newspeak”, “doublethink” and “thoughtcrime” – Nineteen Eighty-Four is a riveting read and a groundbreaking exploration of mass surveillance, censorship and mind control, which has a deep resonance with the world we live in.
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Selected Plays
1,350 LBetween 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde’s drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to trivialize its most sacred institutions
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Pride And Prejudice
1,200 LPride and Prejudice follows the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. They must overcome the titular sins of pride and prejudice in order to fall in love and marry.
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War And Peace
3,250 LTolstoy’s magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfection and grandeur
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Oliver Twist
2,750 L‘The power of Dickens is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his captive’ WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
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Madame Bovary
2,400 LGustave Flaubert’s daring portrait of adultery caused a national scandal when Madame Bovary was first published, and this masterpiece of realist literature has lost none of its impact today.
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
2,750 L‘A triumph of execution … one of the best narratives of the “double life” of a Victorian gentleman’ Peter Ackroyd
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Persuasion
2,750 L‘In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed’ Virginia Woolf
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Jude The Obscure
2,600 LJude the Obscure, Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.
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Pride And Prejudice
2,800 LPride and Prejudice is an 1813 novel of manners by Jane Austen. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
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The Master And Margarita
2,750 LThe Devil comes to Moscow; but he isn’t all bad. Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption; and a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale, but discovers that manuscripts don’t burn.
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A Christmas Carol
2,150 LFirst published on 19 December 1843, A Christmas Carol became an instant classic. Scrooge’s transformation from grumpy miser to charitable figure carries a heart-warming message for the Christmas season – a time of peace and goodwill to all men.
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The Jungle Books
2,750 LThe story of Mowgli, the abandoned “man-cub” who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created.
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