A collection that showcases the very best short stories from the 1890s, which is widely considered to be the most important decade of the Decadent movement....Loe edasi...
A thoroughly entertaining collection of classic crime stories set in the deep midwinter. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collectors Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved c...Loe edasi...
Parties and Passions is a literary celebration. Love, betrayal, sadness, humour, boredom and more are explored in this collection of party stories by classic authors.Featuring tales from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...Loe edasi...
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America’s Jazz Age.The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion...Loe edasi...
The remarkable debut novel from Colette, one of the most beloved French writers in history. Claudine lives in a small rural village in France and attends the local girls school. Headstrong, rebellious and a lover of mischief, she knows how...Loe edasi...
Train travel provides the perfect setting for life’s dramas to play out as proven in this thoroughly diverting collection of short stories. In Victorian England the expansion of railways changed history. Landscapes and cities were transfor...Loe edasi...
Sensual, dark and thrilling, Bram Stoker’s Dracula remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction.When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient...Loe edasi...
An emotionally stirring story, Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is rightfully considered to be one of the finest novels ever written.Rejected by fifteenth-century Parisian society, the hideously deformed bell-ringer Quasimo...Loe edasi...
Ghost stories reached the height of popularity in the late nineteenth century and this collection offers a fine selection of ghostly tales from that time.Many of the contributors are amongst the most famous writers in the English language...Loe edasi...
Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece, presented in a beautiful paperback edition. One of BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, Frankenstein is the most famous novel by Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused.Victor Fr...Loe edasi...
An entrancing anthology of fantasy short stories full of magic, adventure and surprise. From the eerie to the magical by way of the deeply strange, this collection of short stories is a must for all fantasy fans.Part...Loe edasi...
A meticulously chosen collection of stories about love in all its guises.Here is a treasure trove of love stories. O. Henry brings comedy with his tale of a busy broker working too hard to remember that he’s actually married his adored you...Loe edasi...
A beautiful anthology of classic love poems, introduced by bestselling author Joanna Trollope. A complex and truly timeless emotion, love – whether passion or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation – has provoked some of the greatest names...Loe edasi...
Christmas is not always the season of goodwill. As this hugely entertaining collection shows, it can also be the season of mysterious deaths, hidden poison bottles and blunt instruments...Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series...Loe edasi...
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning...Loe edasi...
An exciting collection of short stories showcasing the very best of classic science fiction writing. An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of science fiction short stories featuring space aliens, spectacular inventions, futuristic te...Loe edasi...
A celebration in stories of some of the most influential and groundbreaking women writers in the English language. A selection of dazzling short stories which celebrate the talent and achievements of nine women writers who, each in their o...Loe edasi...
