The Waves
Virdzhinia Ulf (Virginia Woolf)
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'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of ... [ more ] |
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Nostromo
Dzhouzef Konrad (Joseph Conrad)
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Nostromo is the only man capable of the decisive action needed to save the silver of the San Tome mine and secure independence for Sulaco, Occidental province of the Latin American state of Costaguana. Is his integrity as unassailable as ... [ more ] |
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The Original Illustrated
Artyr Konan Dojl (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering ... [ more ] |
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Uiliam Shekspir (William Shakespeare)
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving ... [ more ] |
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Utopia
Tomas Mur (Thomas More)
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More's 'Utopia' is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive ... [ more ] |
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New Testament
William Tyndale
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William Tyndale is the finest English translator of the Bible, and his New Testament one of the most influential works in English Literature. As a young man in pre-Reformation England, where unauthorised translation of the Bible was ... [ more ] |
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Concise Gray
C.H. Leonard (Ed)
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In this, the sixteenth edition of the book originally published as The Pocket Anatomist by the distinguished American gynaecologist C.H. Leonard, are to be found the essential elements of the magisterial 1200-page Gray's Anatomy, but ... [ more ] |
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Viktor Iugo (Victor Hugo)
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Set in 1482, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a compelling story of love and betrayal, brutal deeds and one of the most famous acts of revenge in world literature. Quasimodo, the hunchback of the title, is one of fiction's most extreme ... [ more ] |
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Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde
Oskar Uajld ( Oscar Wilde)
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Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister ... [ more ] |
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The Odyssey
Omir (Homer )
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Homer's great epic describes the many adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives over many years to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. His colourful adventures, his endurance, his love for his wife and ... [ more ] |
