The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle and W. W. Robson (ed.)
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold ...
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Just So Stories: for Little Children
Rudyard Kipling and Lisa Lewis (ed.)
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. ...
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The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Duncan (ed.)
‘The ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would ...
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Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing
James Joyce, Kevin Barry (ed.), and Conor Deane (ed.)
‘I may not be the Jesus Christ I once fondly imagined myself, but I think I must have a talent for journalism’
James Joyce’s non-fictional writings address diverse issues: ...
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett and Peter Hunt (ed.)
‘It was the garden that did it – and Mary and Dickon and the creatures – and the Magic.’ An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, a ...
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Sherlock Holmes Selected Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle and Barry McCrea (ed.)
‘Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science.’ For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately ...
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame and Peter Hunt (ed.)
‘Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ’ So says Rat to Mole, as he introduces him to the delights ...
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