Get ready for a magical Christmas with this timeless selection of festive stories. The joy of Christmas comes to life in each of the 4 classic tales inside, making it the perfect collection for the whole family to treasure forever.

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce’s began circulating his own sardonic, mischievous definitions of words in his various columns for San Francisco newspapers. 

To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf’s novels. 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein, is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818. 

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904.

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Introduction and Notes by Dr Ella Westland, University of Exeter Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. 

War and Peace is a vast epic centered on Napoleons war with Russia.

Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written.