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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
'...losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.' Victorian London is the setting for "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886), Stevenson's famous story of conflict between dual personalities: one good, and one ruthlessly evil. Othe ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Jane Austen wrote some of the most remarkable romantic novels in English, and Emma is said to be written at the height of her powers. Like all her novels (Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility), the narrative is simple, straightforward and the story develops through seemingly commonplace convers ...Show more
Lady Chatterleys Lover by LAWRENCE, DH
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928.Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground edition issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929). Lawrence considered calling this book Tenderness at o ...Show more
Moonstone by COLLINS WILKIE
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins's classic who-done-it, The Moonstone. Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Collins's story revolves around a diamond stolen from a ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by AUSTEN JANE
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Jane Austen's gripping first novel of love and marriage The well-bred Miss Catherine Morland always seems to have her nose stuck in a book, and the Gothic classics are her favorites. During the winter social season, she catches the eyes of two men: the sweet and witty Henry Tilney and the vain John Tho ...Show more
Picture Of Dorian Gray by WILDE OSCAR
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde's fascinating gothic tale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel, is the enduringly eerie story of a na ve and irresistible young man lured by decadent Lord Henry Wotton into a life of depravity ...Show more
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Roger Parsley and Andy Graham have streamlined the well-loved Jane Austen novel and produced a fast-moving, easy to stage adaptation, which retains all the delicate irony, spirit and romance of the original. Left in straitened circumstances when their father dies, the Dashwood girls are forced to move t ...Show more
Tale Of Two Cities by DICKENS CHARLES
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
Dickens's classic story of the French Revolution. While the turmoil of the Revolution rages around them, the lives of the members of the Evremonde family are profoundly affected by the actions of one man - Sydney Carton. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offer ...Show more
Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by BRONTE, ANNE
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall, rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome.
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
The novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, including the classic Crime and Punishment, secured the great Russian writer an exalted position in the literary pantheon of 20th-century authors. The Gambler stands as one of the literary genius' most highly regarded shorter works. At the casino in Roulettenburg, German ...Show more
Thirty-Nine Steps &The Power-House by BUCHAN JOHN
Category: Classics | Series: Arcturus Paperback Classics Ser.
This text contains John Buchan's 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' together with 'The Power-House'. It contains a concise introduction to guide the reader's thoughts and launch them into the text.
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