Posts Tagged ‘classics’

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent cousin, Ambrose. Resolutely single, Ambrose delights in making Philip his heir, knowing he will treasure his beautiful Cornish estate. But Philip’s world is shattered when Ambrose sets off on a trip to Florence. There he falls in love and marries – and then…

In seventeenth-century France, young d’Artagnan joins the three musketeers and tries to outwit the enemies of the king and queen.

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ‘All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil’ Published as a ‘shilling shocker’, Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to…

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker ‘Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window’ A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise…

Naturalistic and moving, the fifteen stories which make up Dubliners each mark a moment of epiphany for the characters, as they experience illumination in the churches, markets, bedrooms and pubs in Dublin. A stirring beautiful depiction of Irish middle-class life in the early twentieth century, this is an eye-opening, powerful introduction to James Joyce’s writing.

STEINBECK/GRAPES OF WRATH (BC)

Edited with an introduction and notes by John Leonard.