Animal Farm

George Orwell

Orwell's chilling farmyard parody of Soviet Russia is brought vividly to life with illustrations by Quentin Blake.

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Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Bored by her calculating husband and eager to live life, Anna falls in love, but her grand passion is doomed to end unhappily. Against this ruinous affair are set the stories of other loves, other marriages and an unsurpassed portrait of Russia in the latter part of the 19th century.

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Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

Anne Shirley falls in love with the rambling farmhouse called Green Gables the moment she sees it. Unfortunately she is not quite what Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew were expecting.

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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Captain Yossarian is a rebel with a cause: to avoid flying the bombing missions over Italy and France that sooner or later will almost certainly result in his own death.

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Cautionary Tales and Other Verses

Hilaire Belloc

They retain their popularity, for who can resist the deliciously sticky ends of 'Matilda who told lies and was burned to death' or 'Jim who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion'?

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The Dead Sea Scrolls

In 1947 a Bedouin shepherd made a sensational discovery. In a cave he found an earthenware jar containing three leather scrolls covered in ancient script, later revealed to be biblical texts nearly 1,000 years older than any previously known.

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Dracula

Bram Stoker

Mingling 19th-century anxieties with the oldest terrors of European myth, Dracula is one of the greatest of all gothic novels, and still has the power to chill the blood.

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Edward Lear's Complete Nonsense

Edward Lear

Introduced by Quentin Blake, this is a collection of Edward Lear's finest work of 'nonsense'.

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The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

John Dowell and his wife are wealthy, leisured Americans living on the Continent. Their close friends, Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, seem the perfect English couple. But behind the Edwardian façade of elegant ease and correctness lurks secret layered upon secret.

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His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman

A magnificent new Folio Society edition of a worldwide phenomenon. The award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials in its first ever fully illustrated hardback edition.

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The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

This thrilling adventure about a boy learning to survive in the wild, continues to hold the world's imagination. Enchanting tales and poems on the lives and customs of jungle creatures are brought vividly to life with beautiful illustrations by Maurice and Edward J. Detmold.

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The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

With this gripping 1930s thriller, Dashiell Hammett single-handedly reinvented the detective novel for the 20th century. Introduced by Steve Erickson, with illustrations by David Eccles.

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Miss Marple Short Stories

Agatha Christie

Poisoning, bloodstains, cups of tea and knitting – a superb collection of detective stories featuring the unassuming Miss Marple.

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The Monks of War

Desmond Seward

The 12th century saw the foundation of the great crusading military orders: the Templars, Knights of Malta and the Teutonic Knights, some of which still survive today. This is a fascinating history of their attempt to fight their way into heaven.

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The Once and Future King

T. H. White

The Wart is a perfectly ordinary medieval boy - restless, inquisitive, happier out of doors than in - albeit one growing up in rare and mysterious privilege at The Castle of the Forest Sauvage.

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