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The Nutcracker & The Mouse King (Collector’s Edition)
The Nutcracker is a classic fairy tale that tells the story of a young girl named Maria who receives a magical nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. That night, she is swept into a fantastical world where toys come to life, she battles the evil Mouse King, and journeys to the enchanting Land of Sweets. Guided… Read More
The Fall of the House of Usher (Collector’s Edition)
The Fall of the House of Usher is a gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of madness, isolation, and decay. The narrator visits the gloomy, crumbling mansion of his childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who is suffering from a mysterious illness alongside his equally strange sister, Madeline. As strange and terrifying events unfold,… Read More
Alice in Wonderland (Luxe Edition)
Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll’s delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.
A Christmas Carol (Luxe Edition)
A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: ‘Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through… Read More
The Secret Garden (Luxe Edition)
Frances Burnett Hodgson’s novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children’s books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten year old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle… Read More
A Memoir of Jane Austen
With an introduction by Dr Sally Minogue Jane Austen’s nephew James knew her fondly as Aunt Jane when he was a child, attended her funeral in Winchester Cathedral as a young man, and wrote this memoir of her some 50 years after her death, as her fame was growing. He could not have imaged Austen’s… Read More
Wendigo and Other Weird Tales
Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver ‘The beauty of the scene was strangely uplifting. Yet, ever at the back of his thoughts, lay that other aspect of the wilderness: the indifference to human life, the merciless spirit of desolation which took no note of man.’ – The Wendigo ‘Of the quality of Mr. Blackwood’s genius… Read More
Man-size in Marble and Other Grim Tales
Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to strangle the thought of it. But it was there—very close to him. Suppose it put out its hand, its wax hand, and touched him. But… Read More
The Phantom of the Opera
Based on the translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and with an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. ‘… the shadow turned round; and I saw a terrible death’s-head, which darted a look at me from a pair of scorching eyes. I felt as if I were face to face with Satan…’ Erik, the Phantom of… Read More