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Frankenstein
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Siv Janson, University of Greenwich. Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend… Read More
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli’s parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown… Read More
The Enchanted April
When four very different English women abandon their grey, constricted lives for a month in a rented Italian castle, none of them expects to be changed. Yet beneath the warm April sun, amid the scent of wisteria and the glittering Mediterranean, old grievances soften and guarded hearts begin to open. Reserved Mrs Wilkins and earnest… Read More
A Doll’s House & Other Plays
With an Introduction by Ellen Rees, Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo. The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical conventions and created a more realistic form of drama that used the stage as a forum for debating social… Read More
Carmilla & Other Pleasing Terrors
Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver. ‘Sometimes it was as if warm lips kissed me, and longer and longer and more lovingly as they reached my throat, but there the caress fixed itself. My heart beat faster, my breathing rose and fell rapidly and full drawn; a sobbing, that rose into a sense of strangulation,… Read More
British Ghost Stories
BRITISH GHOST STORIES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE GHOST STORY Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver. ‘Only their eyes, their terrible eyes, were living; and those eyes were all turned menacingly upon me!’ – Amelia B. Edwards. ‘I want to know what it is that walks about his room sometimes when he’s out and… Read More
Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society, the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where the representatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for ‘… life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture’. Woolf… Read More
Wind, Sand and Stars
“Wind, Sand and Stars” is a lyrical memoir by French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, blending adventure, reflection, and philosophical insight. Drawing from his experiences as a pioneering pilot in the early days of aviation, Saint-Exupéry recounts dramatic flights across deserts, mountains, and open skies. Through tales of survival, solitude, and human connection, he… Read More
Frankenstein – Empress
Exclusively designed cover by Carmen Di Mauro Gold foil blocking combined with spot-gloss UV on a matte laminated dust jacket Textured hardback cover complete with matching foil blocking (on front, spine and back) Full coloured hand-designed patterned endpapers Digitally sprayed edged on all 3 sides in full colour Co-ordinating head and tail bands Matching ribbon… Read More