When strange attacks on ships stir fear across the globe, French scientist Pierre Aronnax sets out with his loyal servant Conseil and daring harpooner Ned Land to uncover the mystery....

Sara has lived like a princess with her wealthy father Captain Crewe in India. She lost her mother when she was born but she hardly felt the pain of her...

A Room of One s Own is a long feminist essay by Virginia Woolf which was first published in 1929. Woolf based her polemic on two lectures she delivered to...

Declared unfit for military life after an injury in the Anglo-Afghan War, Dr. Watson returns to London. He is hunting for a thrifty rented place when a friend introduces him...

Sitting on the riverbank beside her elder sister, who is reading a book with no pictures or conversations, Alice is feeling extremely bored when suddenly, she spots a white rabbit....

When aging siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert request an orphanage through a friend to send them a boy to help on the farm, their message is totally misconstrued. Who they...

A translation of the 16th century Spanish novel called Lazarillo de Tormes by an anonymous author

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is a young thinking person who believes that he is above the normal moral order. He begins on a risky journey-a first-hand exploration of the laws of...

Set in a provincial Russian town, Demons (also known as The Devils and The Possessed), follows a circle of revolutionaries led by Pyotr Verkhovensky, a cunning agitator who orchestrates a...

Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, visits Transylvania, Romania, to help Dracula, a local count, buy a house in London. It does not take him long to find out that his...

Dubliners is a masterful collection of fifteen short stories that capture the lives of ordinary Dubliners with striking realism and emotional depth. Written when Joyce was just twenty-five, the collection...

Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.

While playing in the gravel pit in the countryside Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother Lamb come to lay their hands upon a Psammead a sand fairy who...

For over a century the horror of Frankenstein has captured readers imagination. It is a story of a Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein and his ambition to create an intelligent living...

The March sisters are all grown-up now. It is time they ventured into the twists and turns of life. Meg gets married, Jo comes to know that Laurie is in...

Great Expectations, Charles Dickens most acclaimed and popular novel, tells the story of Pip, a young orphan, who narrates the tale. Pip grows up in the marshlands of Kent, where...

Grimms' Fairy Tales are a captivating collection of classic stories passed down through generations Curated by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early 19th century, these tales are far more...

Following a shipwreck, Lemuel Gulliver, an Irish ship surgeon, lands in Lilliput and finds himself among a tiny people who are even smaller than the length of a human hand....

Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for...

His Last Bow, the fourth volume of Sherlock Holmes short stories, was published in 1917. It contains 8 stories from his long illustrious career. He is long retired but the...

One of the most enduring and beloved novels in history, Jane Eyre continues to captivate readers in this gorgeously designed volume. Orphaned as a child and forced to live with...

The eccentric but intrepid German Professor Otto Lidenbrock discovers a parchment in an old manuscript of an Icelandic saga. It has a cipher written in runes on it which, when...

Do you ever wonder how the whale got its throat? The camel its hump? The rhino its skin? The leopard its spots? The elephant its trunk or how the alphabet...

David Balfour is a 17 year old boy whose parents have just died. Having been left alone in the world he turns for help to his uncle Ebenezer Balfour. Ebenezer...

Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good meet the adventurer Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry s brother who has gone missing in his quest for legendry...

In the bleak aftermath of World War I, Constance, Lady Chatterley, is a young woman trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralysed....

Fanny Price is ten when her poor parents send her to live with Bertrams, their rich relatives at Mansfield Park. The new life, however, has its own disadvantages. Her cousins,...

Tired of the monotony of life, Ishmael, a contemplative wanderer, sets out on a whaling voyage aboard the Pequod, a whaling ship under the command of the enigmatic Captain Ahab....

Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. As she makes preparations she relives her life in a continuous monologue which reveals a disturbed and unhappy woman under the guise of a...

Young and attractive Catherine Moreland has an active imagination. A voracious reader of gothic novels, she believes that their horror can unfold in real life. She but truly begins to...

First published in 1667, Paradise Lost is a towering epic that explores the cosmic struggle between good and evil, the fall of humankind, and the complexities of free will, Written...

Anne Elliot is intelligent and fairly attractive. She is 27 and unmarried. She was once engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a naval officer without fortune, but the engagement was broken when...

Peter Pan is a mischievous young boy who refuses to grow up. He is beautiful with all his first teeth intact. He spends his time in a fantasy island called...

The old wood-carver Geppetto decides to make a wonderful puppet which can dance and turn somersaults, but by chance he chooses an unusual piece of wood - and the finished...

Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s remarkable debut, is a poignant epistolary novel that explores the quiet despair and fragile dignity of the impoverished in 19th-century St. Petersburg. Through the tender exchange...

ناولٹ یا مختصر ناول، “قلب ظلمات” کو جو جی چاہے کہہ لیجیے۔ اسے عالمی ادب میں شاہکار کا درجہ حاصل ہے اور رہے گا۔ جوزف کونریڈ نے اس سے زیادہ...

When their father dies and the estate goes to their half-brother, Dashwood sisters and their mother are on their own. Margaret is a child but Elinor and Marianne have come...

Set in the early 19th century, Silas Marner is the story of a small-town weaver. A member of a Calvinist congregation in a town of northern England, Silas Marner is...

Paul Morel is a sensitive young artist who grew up in a working-class family dominated by his strong-willed mother, Gertrude. Trapped between loyalty to her and his desire for independence,...

Tales from Shakespeare is a prose retelling of 20 Shakespearean plays for children and has been an ideal introduction to his works since its first publication in 1807. It includes...

Set against the hauntingly beautiful backdrop of Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles traces the fate of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and wayward villager, who discovers a tenuous...

Having helped the authorities catch the murderer Injun Joe in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn may be a hero for everyone but he is nobody to his cruel...

The stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand Magazine before their publication in book form in 1892. Having appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) and...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s elegant and incisive portrait of passion restrained by social convention. Set in the upper-class circles of 1870s New...

The arabian Nights: Tales From One Thousand and One Nights

Fyodor Karamazov is found dead one night. An epicurean and a compulsory liar, he was not a good father either. Therefore, his death raises the question of parricide. It could...

Buck, a pet St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd, is stalen from his Californian abade and having suffered at the hands of his successive masters he is finally sold as a sled dog...

Published in 1927 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was the concluding volume of Sherlock Holmes adventures. It contains the last 12 of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written from 1921...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short stories reveal his unparalleled insight into the human psyche, blending dark satire, spiritual yearning, and philosophical depth. In "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", he crafts a...

Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin is an anxious and socially awkward clerk whose fragile world begins to unravel with the sudden appearance of his double, a charming, confident replica who infiltrates his...

Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen never imagined that they d be spending their summer vacation at a school. But now that they are, they wish it to be fun. When they...

Velchaninov, a proud and self-assured bachelor, unexpectedly runs into Pavel Pavlovich Trusotsky, a peculiar man who deeply unsettles him. He soon recognizes him to be the husband of Natalia, a...

Alexei Ivanovich, a passionate and impulsive young tutor, is an employee of a fallen Russian general. He falls madly in love with the general’s daughter, Polina, and agrees to gamble...

Ever thought a statue and a swallow could become friends? A fire cracker and a rocket could have a disagreement? That autumn wouldn t give fruit to a giant because...

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World s finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details...

Narrated through the fictional lens of Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov, a nobleman sentenced for the murder of his wife, The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel based on Fyodor...

Prince Lev Myshkin is a kind and compassionate man whose sincerity and honesty has set him apart in a world driven by ambition, greed and deception. Returning to Russia after...

A man shows up at a local inn at Iping on a snowy winter night. He is donning a long-sleeved thick coat and a pair of gloves. His face, hidden...

Edward Prendick, the sole survivor of a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean, is rescued by another vessel. On board, he cannot help but notice the strange demeanour of M’ling, one...

The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories is the third volume of Chekhov s short story collections. It contains 9 beautiful short stories. Vladimir Nabokoy hailed "The Lady with...

Set against the lush, untamed wilderness of upper New York State during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans follows the fearless frontiersman Hawkeye and his steadfast...

Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this bold edition...

Set in 19th-century England, The Mayor of Casterbridge centers on Michael Henchard, a man whose impulsive decision in a moment of drunken despair sets the course for a lifetime of...

Set in the 19th-century Russia, The Meek One, also known as A Gentle Spirit, is a retrospective account of an ill-fated marriage of a pawn- broker and a teen girl,...

Published in 1894, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes was the second collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It contains 11 stories all of which appeared in...

Troy of The Iliad could still be standing there in all glory today if it were not for Odysseus who conceived the Trojan Horse and laid the foundation of Greek...

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this magical edition of The Phoenix and the Carpet. It's startling enough to have...

Enamoured by the beauty of Dorian Gray, the sensitive artist Basil Hallward paints in oil a full-length portrait of the protagonist. Sitting there Gray listens to the hedonistic worldviews of...

We are in the 16th century England. Two identical boys. Edward and Tom, are born in London on the same day. Edward is the crown prince and Tom is a...

Young princess Irene, living in a lonely mountain castle, discovers a secret great-great-grandmother who gives her a magical thread to guide her through danger. The princess doesn’t know that a...

Henry Fleming, a young soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, runs away from battle in fear. Ashamed of his actions, he wishes for a wound—a ‘red...

Conan Doyle killed Sherlock Holmes in “The Final Problem” (1893), the last story in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. However, he succumbed to the public pressure and resurrected him after...

One foggy afternoon, out of work Sherlock Holmes is busy revealing his philosophy of life to Dr. Watson and Mrs. Hudson, the land lady. They are interrupted by the arrival...

What a shame that Psammead can grant wishes to others but not to himself! Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find him in captivity in a London pet shop and buy...

Jekyll and Hyde is the story of good Dr Henry Jekyll, a man of great stature, who only wants to show his amicable side to the society. Torn between good...

Sherlock Holmes receives a coded message. Unfortunately, he deciphers it much too late. It warned of a murder. A dead man now lies on the floor, at Birlstone House in...

Soon after the explosions on the surface of Mars, a "meteor" lands in Woking, England and dislodges Martians, a monstro species "the size of a bear" having "two large dark-coloured...

Mole had no idea that the Wild Wood would be a place full of friends. Well, not many but a few at least who he could frolic with! One day,...

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum is a classic children's novel written in the late 19th century. The story centers on a young girl named Dorothy, who...

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One of the most innovative authors and distinguished literary critics of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf examines family dynamics and the tensions between men and women in her 1927 novel To...

Katy Carr is not who she wants to be. She is a twelve-year-old tom boy who yearns to be a charming and beloved young lady when she grows up. It...

White Fang is a story of a wolfdog of the same name. The book is narrated from the point of view of the wolfdog, where he witnesses the harsh realities...

White Nights is a poignant and deeply introspective novella which tells us the story of a lonely dreamer who is in the habit of wandering the streets of St. Petersburg....

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Emily Bronte’s extraordinary masterpiece with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. This is the tale of...