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Classics of English Literature: Charles Dickens; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Rudyard Kipling; H G Wells (four volume set) (The Great Masters Library)
Classics of English Literature Charles Dickens Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Rudyard Kipling H G Wells - four volume set - The Great Masters Library Author:Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, H G Wells These four volumes are from the publisher's series, The Great Masters Library. Four volumes with matching bindings (although different colors): cloth covered boards with imitation leather at the spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The Dickens volume has a few b&w illustrations and contains: Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol... more », and A Tale of Two Cities. The Doyle volume contains: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans; this has all the original b&w illustrations by Sidney Paget plus additional illustrations by George Hutchinson and Frank H Townsend. The Kipling volume has a few b&w illustrations and contains: The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories for Little Children, Puck of Pook's Hill, Captains Courageous, Stalky & Co, Kim, Plain Tales from the Hills, and Short Stories. The Wells volume is not illustrated (other than small chapter headpiece decorations), and contains: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, and The Food of the Gods. This set was issued in a slipcase.« less