Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

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At the height of the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas is offered one last mission before retirement — to destroy the head of East German intelligence — and what...

Step back into the hallowed corridors of Malory Towers, where friendship, rivalry, and the bittersweet passage of growing up are woven into every term. In the Fifth at Malory Towers...

The end of an era arrives with bittersweet finality in Last Term at Malory Towers, the sixth and concluding instalment in Enid Blyton's beloved school series, as Darrell Rivers and...

From the smouldering ruins of a stolen love to the thunder of warships crossing the wine-dark sea, The Tale of Troy is a magnificent retelling of the greatest adventure story...

One of the most beloved and enduring works of spiritual literature ever written, The Prophet presents the wisdom of Almustafa, a prophet who has lived in the foreign city of...

In a glass-encased city of the future, D-503, a loyal mathematician and spacecraft engineer of the all-powerful One State, begins keeping a diary — and in doing so, unwittingly chronicles...

Few works have so permanently altered humanity's understanding of itself as Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, a searing philosophical treatise that argues the very fabric of organised society is...

The cleft of a ginkgo leaf recalls a lover's divided self; Greek gods and Persian poets give voice to euphoria and lamentation; and the artist must battle fiercely to bring...

During Shakespeare's lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare's other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of...

This edition of Hamlet represents a radically new text of the best known and most widely discussed of all Shakespearean tragedies. Arguing that the text currently accepted is not, in...

Audiences have always delighted in the robust comedy and verbal inventiveness of The Taming of the Shrew . It has survived many adaptations ranging from, probably, the play printed in...