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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99Includes: The Tinder-Box; The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina; The Little Mermaid; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Steadfast Soldier; The Ugly Duckling; The Snow Queen; The Little Match-Girl ... -
The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 9780199552504
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.99The plans of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood to regain his ancient family estate from the corrupt Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland are frustrated by the complexities of the legal and political... -
Vathek William Beckford 9780199576951
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99'Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant; and to undertake that which surpasseth his power!' The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for... -
The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux 9780199694570
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.00'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik!' A mysterious Phantom haunts the depths of the Paris Opera House where he has fallen passionately in love with the beautiful singer... -
The Monk Matthew Lewis 9780198704454
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction... -
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers by Vernon Lee
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.24I entered the church...It struck me suddenly that all this crowd of men and women standing all round, these priests chanting and moving about the altar, were dead... Vernon Lee was a polymath... -
The Romance of the Forest Ann Radcliffe 9780199539222
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.00The Romance of the Forest (1791) heralded an enormous surge in the popularity of Gothic novels, in a decade that included Ann Radcliffe's later works, The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Italian. Set... -
The Wendigo and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.74'See!...The woods are alive! Already the Great Ones are there, and the dance will soon begin! The salve is here! Anoint yourself and come!' One of the greatest writers of the strange and weird,... -
Collected Ghost Stories M. R. James 9780199674893
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.56'I was conscious of a most horrible smell of mould, and of a cold kind of face pressed against my own...' Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, M. R. James was an eminent... -
Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne 9780199538072
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for... -
The Wild Ass's Skin Honor^D'e de Balzac 9780199579501
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.49'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in Paris,... -
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott 9780199537501
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.24'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions'... -
The Collected Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.33'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as a baby, living in... -
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 9780199539123
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.99In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot... -
Victorian Fairy Tales Michael Newton (Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Leiden) 9780198737599
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.68'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy... -
The Virginian by Owen Wister
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a... -
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 9780199538799
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise... -
The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe 9780199537419
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.69`Her present life appeared like the dream of a distempered imagination, or like one of those frightful fictions, in which the wild genius of the poets sometimes delighted. Rreflections brought only... -
Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69The definitive English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte Darthur was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory, `knight-prisoner'. In a resonant prose style, Malory charts the tragic... -
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 9780198702641
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.24'Cities, nations, civilization, progress-it's all over. That game's up. We're beat.' One of the most important and influential invasion narratives ever written, The War of the Worlds (1897)... -
News from Nowhere William Morris 9780199539192
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99'The only English utopia since More's that deserves to be remembered as literature.' News from Nowhere (1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris. The novel describes the encounter... -
Looking Backward 2000-1887 Edward Bellamy 9780199552573
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £7.74'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-si`ecle Boston, plunges... -
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 9780198707516
SciFier: £6.99'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers...' At a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London,... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells 9780198702665
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals, humanised animals...' A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a... -
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 9780199536443
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.50'Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ' So... -
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories by Stephen Crane
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War, based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. The... -
The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 9780199553983
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.19The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a... -
Zofloya: or The Moor Charlotte Dacre 9780199549733
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.25`Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and... -
Notre-Dame de Paris Victor Hugo 9780199555802
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere... -
Lady Audley's Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon 9780199577033
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.74'it only rests with yourself to become Lady Audley, and the mistress of Audley Court' When beautiful young Lucy Graham accepts the hand of Sir Michael Audley, her fortune and her future look... -
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 9780199552511
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.99Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible... -
Arabian Nights' Entertainments Robert L. Mack (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee) 9780199555871
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £11.99No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided... -
The Empire of the Ants and Other Stories H. G. Wells 9780192862327
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.09'Very thin indeed is the curtain between us and the unknown' The short stories of H. G. Wells are about many things, but they are nearly always about contact between the extraordinary and the... -
Late Victorian Gothic Tales by Roger Luckhurst (, Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College)
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.99'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an... -
The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance H. G. Wells 9780198702672
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.95'The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and... -
Dracula Bram Stoker 9780199564095
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £4.99'it was butcher work...the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam' Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic shocker introduced Count Dracula to the... -
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 9780199645602
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published. Written by an Anglican clergyman with an insatiable love of science, the story combines an uplifting... -
The Trial Franz Kafka 9780199238293
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.74'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under... -
The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow Shelley 9780198892793
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.69'I will leave a monument of the existence of Verney, the Last Man.' Mary Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c. 1822-26) three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet... -
The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre John Polidori 9780199552412
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.24`Upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein: - to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, "a Vampyre, a Vampyre!"'...