Rare Classic Books

Mr Pooter's diary is a faithful record of the daily grind in respectable suburbia and the city office. It tells of his constant war against insolen...

these three wonderful comic novels drolly record the battle between Lucia and br>elisabeth maps for social and cultural supremacy in the village...

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeti...

Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth — the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our imaginations f...

Old Martin chuzzlewit, tormented by the greed and selfishness of his family, effectively drives his grandson, young Martin, to undertake a voyage t...

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished ba...

'One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.' Thus begins The Metamor...

This is a new edition, Adeptio's Vintage Edition, of Charles Dickens's Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, originally published in 1948 by Br...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel and his penultimate (completed) novel; a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth a...

Our Mutual Friend, last accomplished novel by Charles Dickens, printed in series in 1864-65 and in book form in 1865. Sometimes analysed to Bleak H...

This volume combines three reference works, "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs" and "The Con...

Enter the haunting world of Frankenstein, a chilling masterpiece that defies the boundaries of science and morality. In this gripping tale of creat...

a work, published in 1821, in which the author describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his l...

Great Expectations is the story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and great expectations, and then loses bo...

Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works.

Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt and later attends a charity school with a harsh regime, enduring loneliness and cruel...

As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right...

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literatur...

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. H...

THE BEST OF ME is the heart-rending story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they...

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accomp...

An ancient parchment bearing a mysterious cryptogram maps the most hazardous journey of Professor Lidenbrock's career. His journey to the centre of...

Dickens’s story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of ...

This is an ideal Christmas present, to give or receive. It includes Dickens's five most popular Christmas tales: The Chimes, The Haunted Man, The C...