Northanger Abbey is the story of Catherine Morland, an enthusiastic but naive girl intent on becoming a heroine like the ones she has read about in popular novels. Searching for romance and adventures worthy of her favorate works of fiction, she becomes evermore entangled in an authentic world...  more

Northanger Abbey is the story of Catherine Morland, an enthusiastic but naive girl intent on becoming a heroine like the ones she has read about in popular novels. Searching for romance and adventures worthy of her favorate works of fiction, she becomes evermore entangled in an authentic world of manipulation, greed and disloyalty. This is one of Jane Austen's earliest and most varied works. It contains fascinating insights into her life as both a readerand a writer, andis as imaginative and entertaining as the gothic novels it sets out to lampoon.

Catherine Morland meets all the trappings of Gothic horror and imagines the worst. Disaster does eventually strike, as it does in the real world as distinct from the romantic one, but without spoiling the wonderful atmosphere of this story.

This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites. It represents what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket, and contains some Austen's earliest work - her hilarious brief "History of England", illustrated by her favourite sister, which is a worthy forerunner of "1066 &...  more

This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites. It represents what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket, and contains some Austen's earliest work - her hilarious brief "History of England", illustrated by her favourite sister, which is a worthy forerunner of "1066 & All That", to the unfinished "Sanditon", the novel of her maturity on which she was working at her death aged 42. Also included are the two epistolary novels, "Lady Susan" and "Love and Friendship" (sic), "The Watsons", "Catharine", "Lesley Castle", "Evelyn", "Frederic and Elfrida", "Jack and Alice", "Edgar and Emma", "Henry and Eliza" and "The Three Sisters".

"The Beautiful and Damned", F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern...  more

"The Beautiful and Damned", F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Cafe Society. As with all of his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and is also an early account of the complexities of marriage and intimacy, largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.

The world's greatest ghost stories emanate from the British Isles - the superb, donnish tales of M.R. James and those of the wilder and more exotic Celtic imaginations of such writers as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker - and they are brought together in this handsome boxed set. It includes...  more

The world's greatest ghost stories emanate from the British Isles - the superb, donnish tales of M.R. James and those of the wilder and more exotic Celtic imaginations of such writers as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker - and they are brought together in this handsome boxed set. It includes Charles Dicken's famous tales of the supernatural, as well as stories from other great literary figures such as Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, E.F. Benson, John Buchan and Sir Walter Scott. This box will make a handsome gift for those who appreciate the macabre, the unearthly and the plain scary, and this limited edition offers a considerable saving over the purchase of the four books individually.

he story of a half-crazed musician hiding in the labyrinth of the famous Paris Opera House & orchestrating a number of events to further the career of a beautiful young singer has captured the imaginations of filmmakers, musicians, & millions of readers.

Originally designed as a story for boys, but with great appeal for adult readers, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by Long John Silver.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of terrifying discoveries about his client. In "Dracula" Bram Stoker evokes a nightmare world of vampires and illuminates the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.