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When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house in order to learn about t...

The common view of the Romans is that they were only interested in watching gladiators ha...

Here are the stories of nine great adventures and the lives of the men who took part in t...

Religion is central to the lives of millions of people around the globe. But how did the ...

Maupassant is hailed as one of the greatest masters of the short story. This collection f...

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second h...

This delightful selection of stories by one of the classic masters of the genre includes ...

Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop c...

In Paradise Regained, Satan again is on the prowl, having successfully tempted Adam and E...

The Canterbury Tales are widely read and studied. The Middle English in which they were f...

Bellerophon and the winged horse Pegasus launch into the blue sky in search of the dreade...

The letters of Keats between 1816 and 1821 are passionate, revealing and sensitive. Furth...

These three tales from The Canterbury Tales are read in the original Middle English by Ri...

Sacred Elephant is a moving portrayal of the world’s largest land-living mammal. Th...

Whale Nation is a hymn to the beauty, intelligence and majesty of the largest mammal on e...

These stories are designed to engender a chill in the listener which is not just due to t...

The tree, the fireside, the candles, the presents and the festive food may be the main fe...

These five chilling nineteenth-century ghost stories from both sides of the Atlantic incl...

One of Katherine Mansfield’s finest short stories, Bliss, introduces us to Bertha, ...

A chilling collection of ghost stories containing Rats by M. R. James, The Raven and...

A spine-tingling collection of classic ghost stories – a perfect way to pass t...

A witty, bawdy, erotic but classic collection of poetry designed to celebrate the most se...

A dark night, a graveyard and the suspicion of murder... The Body Snatcher is one of Robe...

Here are twelve short stories by Anton Chekhov, one of the finest masters of what is ackn...

In The Final Problem, perhaps the greatest of the short stories of Sherlock Holmes, the E...

When Sherlock Holmes met his demise in The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in 1...

Ben Rimalower's one-man plays “Patti Issues” and “Bad wi...

Today Byron is regarded as the ultimate romantic – a rebel, a Casanova and a man of...

Daisy Miller is a young American girl travelling Europe with her mother and younger broth...

The Victorian era was a time of great change and rapid progress. Britain was undergoing t...

Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series of travels, but each time he finds himself shipwreck...

Oliver Twist runs away from the brutality of the workhouse only to find himself taken in ...

The year is 1866. The maritime world is gripped by fear after reported sightings of a hug...

Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling’s finest novel is the exciting and touc...

To take on the bet – to go around the world in eighty days, faster than anyone...

Buck is living the good life in the soft South, when he is snatched and transported to th...

When Roberta, Peter and Phyllis’s father is arrested for a crime he did not commit ...

Both a cracking tale of horror and a deeply audacious account of the human psyche, The St...

‘I’m youth, I’m joy… I’m a little bird that has broken out...

This is the moving and powerful story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and moth...

When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long-lost relative, a terrifying...

Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who comes to life and has the most astonishing adventures. A...

Eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley has red hair, a vivid imagination and cannot stop tal...

Oscar Wilde’s fairy stories are among the greatest and most poignant classics for c...

Alice is back in her room, stroking her cats – but not for long. Slipping thro...

Black Beauty, the friendly, patient stallion with a white blaze upon his forehead, is one...

This is the second volume in the poignant yet amusing tale of the perky red-headed Anne o...

This great children’s classic, written in 1900 and immortalised in the Judy Garland...

A popular biography which looks at the life of the playwright in part through the plays t...

The author of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer enjoys an unexpected fantasy as a nineteent...