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Everyman5440 ₽
David Copperfield | David Copperfield – Dickens’s most celebrated novel, and the author’s own favourite – is the classic account of one boy growing up in a world which is by turns magical, fearful and...
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Everyman6609 ₽
The Best of Wodehouse. An Anthology | P. G. Wodehouse was, by common consent, the most brilliant writer of English comedy in the twentieth century, equally celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic. He...
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Everyman4769 ₽
Lord Emsworth and Others | A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us - if we need reminding - of their author's limitle...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Florence Stories | Florence’s world-famous Renaissance is brought to life in this anthology through the eyes of its most illustrious chroniclers. Beginning with Dante’s vision of Inferno, teeming with...
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Everyman6609 ₽
The Good Soldier Svejk | An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the Ancien Regime of the Austro-Hungarian empire, The Good Soldier Svejk recreates the age-old figure of the simple soldier wh...
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Everyman5586 ₽
Daniel Deronda | George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious he...
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Everyman5875 ₽
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz | Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent. His autobiography is among the greatest ...
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Everyman5870 ₽
Villette | Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of Villette, achieves by degrees an authentic independenc...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Laughing Gas | A Hollywood star and an English aristocrat exchange souls while under ether at the dentist and the result is mayhem. Though his golden curls and sweet expression make him the idol of mo...
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Everyman2361 ₽
The Head of Kay's | It is the general view at Eckleton that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. The fags run riot, the senior dayroom lacks moral fibre, and no one seems to care much ab...
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Everyman2362 ₽
Indiscretions of Archie | When an impoverished but charming Englishman, Archie Moffam, marries the daughter of tough American millionaire Daniel Brewster, the stage is set for a characteristic Wodehou...
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Everyman4862 ₽
Detective Stories | If every fiction is at heart a mystery, then the detective story is fiction distilled to its purest essence, combining the intellectual appeal of puzzles with the psychological fas...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Very Good, Jeeves! | Very Good, Jeeves! is a collection of short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentleman’s gentleman. ...
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Everyman11015 ₽
The Cairo Trilogy. Palace Walk. Palace of Desire. Sugar Street | Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writ...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Meet Mr Mulliner | A stalwart of the Angler's Rest, where he is usually to be found in company with Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, Mr Mulliner has an endless supply of brothers, nephews and cousins w...
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Everyman5871 ₽
The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins’ novel took the fashionable world by storm on its appearance in 1860 when everything from dances to dresses was named after the ‘woman in white’. Its continuing pow...
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Everyman2362 ₽
The White Feather | In order to save his reputation and the honour of his house at school after he shames himself by running away from a fight between fellow pupils and toughs from the local town, a s...
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Everyman4774 ₽
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini | Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the g...
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Everyman4036 ₽
Shaken and Stirred. Intoxicating Stories | In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents over-imbibe in tales by Jack London...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Bring on the Girls | Despite an enormous solo output, P. G. Wodehouse often co-operated with other writers, especially in the early stages of his career, exchanging or sharing plots, advising on probl...
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Everyman4034 ₽
Selected Stories | Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and surprise endings...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Blandings Castle | Take a pig, a fat-headed earl, a country house, several pairs of frustrated lovers, some scheming outsiders, and all sorts of people who aren’t who they say they are. Mix thoroughly...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Psmith in the City | When Psmith finds himself working in the City for the pompous Mr Bickersdyke, he makes it his mission to bring a little sweetness and light into the bank manager's life. The monoc...
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Everyman3724 ₽
The Woodlanders | Hardy described the theme of The Woodlanders as 'the immortal puzzle -given the man and woman, how to find a basis for their sexual relation'. Set in the familiar Dorset landscape, t...
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Everyman4490 ₽
French Leave | Three American sisters leave their chicken farm on Long Island for a holiday in Europe. In France they encounter the charming but penniless Marquis de Maufringneuse, his writer son Jeff...
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Everyman4842 ₽
The Awkward Age | The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written when ...
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Everyman2362 ₽
The Luck Stone | Published under a pseudonym in the weekly magazine Chums, The Luck Stone was written very early in Wodehouse's career when he was still trying to establish himself as a write by tryin...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Animal Farm | A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, Animal Farm is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writ...
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Everyman5730 ₽
The Transylvania Trilogy. Volume 2. They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided | The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industria...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Sunset at Blandings | In Wodehouse's final novel, unfinished at his death, the author returns to his favourite part of England. In a classic plot, Vicky Underwood is parted from her fiance, Jeff Benni...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Full Moon | Despite marriage to a millionaire’s daughter and success as the vice-president of Donaldson’s Inc., manufacturers of the world-famous Donaldson’s Dog-Joy, Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth...
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Everyman4294 ₽
Oliver Twist | The most swiftly-moving and unified of Dickens’s great novels, Oliver Twist is famous for its re-creation of the London underworld of pimps, thieves and prostitutes – and especially for...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Mr Mulliner Speaking | More stories about the incredible Mulliner clan, following on from Meet Mr Mulliner. This volume includes such classic Wodehouse tales as ‘The Man Who Gave Up Smoking’, ‘The Awf...
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Everyman2362 ₽
Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere | The twenty-five stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse’s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good deal more. Although among his earliest at...
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Everyman5307 ₽
The House Of The Spirits | We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the mother and grandmother of the clan, Clara de...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Over Seventy | When is an autobiography not an autobiography? When the author is P. G. Wodehouse. Over Seventy purports to be a series of answers to stray questions about ageing given by a rambling ol...
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Everyman4039 ₽
Rome Stories | During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a great world religion. For writers from antiquity to the ...
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Everyman4710 ₽
Nothing Serious | A collection of ten stories in which many old friends reappear in deliciously absurd situations. Two lovers are united by their hatred of cricket. Bingo Little, editor of Wee Tots an...
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Everyman4842 ₽
Germinal | Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale of life above and below ground among the mining families of Montsou. By turns heroic...
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Everyman6237 ₽
Poems & Prophecies | A comprehensive selection of the poet’s work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the distinguished poet and critic Kathleen...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Uncle Fred in the Springtime | ‘I don’t know if you happen to know what the word “excesses” means, but these are what Pongo’s Uncle Fred, when in London, invariably commits.’ When the dastardly Duke o...
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Everyman2362 ₽
Spring Fever | When a man needs only two hundred pounds to marry his cook and buy a public house, one would expect his life to be trouble free, but the fifth Earl of Shortlands has to reckon with his ...
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Everyman3162 ₽
Sherlock Homes | ‘Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver – S. H.’ The g...
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Everyman4598 ₽
Bedtime Stories | As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller’s art, with its ancient roots in ...
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Everyman4774 ₽
The General in His Labyrinth | Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most political novel tells the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bolivar, who drove the Spanish fro...
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Everyman4113 ₽
The Girl in Blue | This charming novel is one of Wodehouse’s best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering country house, an overweight solicitor, a fortune-hunter,...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Money in the Bank | When George, Viscount Uffenham turns the entire family fortune into diamonds and squirrels them away, naturally he forgets where he has hidden the loot and finds himself compelled ...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Small Bachelor | Would-be painter, George Finch, with lots of money and no talent, falls for lovely Molly Waddington who falls for him. Unfortunately, Molly's snobbish stepmother, Mrs Sigsbee H. W...
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Everyman4114 ₽
The Girl on the Boat | When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend and the bes...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Wedding Stories | The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal Party," Joy...
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Everyman4770 ₽
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell’s native Scotland in 1773, the adventur...
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Everyman6372 ₽
The Complete Novels | In the five novels by Ireland's greatest comic writer we can explore the full range of his invention, from the multi-layered madness of At Swim-Two Birds to the piercing realism ...
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Everyman4251 ₽
The Mating Season | When Bertie Wooster visits Deverill Hall pretending to be Gussie Fink-Nottle he finds himself in trouble. To begin with, there is the case of Esmond Haddock, JP, the squire of King...
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Everyman4091 ₽
Pinocchio | Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg. Pinocchio, an endearing scamp, is always getting himself into trouble. But it isn't the sort of troubl...
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Everyman4298 ₽
Selected Writings | Humboldt (1769–1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, s...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Ukridge | If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he has ever floated, he would be a rich man indeed. In these ten stories he tries every way of making money, from writ...
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Everyman4490 ₽
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets | Bingo Little, husband of romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks, escapes from the watchful eye of his wife with hazardous results. Two men and a policeman vie for paternity of the...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves | Bertie Wooster vows that nothing will induce him to return to Totleigh Towers, lair of former magistrate Sir Watkyn Bassett. Apart from Sir Watkyn himself, the place is infes...
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Everyman4490 ₽
A Prefect's Uncle | The uncle of the title is a mysterious stranger who arrives at Beckford College and turns out to be younger than his nephew, already a prefect at the school. Thus the scene is set ...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Love Among the Chickens | This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse’s favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coas...
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Everyman4490 ₽
If I Were You | If I Were You is Wodehouse's comic variation on a favourite theme of Victorian melodrama - the changeling. Did old Nannie Price really substitute her own child for the infant son of th...
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Everyman4098 ₽
The Cossacks | "Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting . . . has made The Cossacks the most popular of all his w...
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Everyman4770 ₽
Carry On, Jeeves | The titles of the first story in this collection - 'Jeeves Takes Charge' - and the last - 'Bertie Changes His Mind' - sum up the relationship of twentieth-century fiction's most fam...
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Everyman4114 ₽
Money for Nothing | When Chimp Twist, the dodgy proprietor of Healthward Ho health farm in Worcestershire, joins forces with partners in crime Dolly and Soapy Molloy, the result is bound to be trouble...