With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.These lively, varied and thought-provoking science-fiction stories (from the era of Jules Verne and H....
A dreamlike, frozen dystopia from one of the twentieth century's most unique writersNo one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps...
An all-new collection of winter-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the festive period.There's a chill in the air and the days are growing shorter…...
A slice of genre-defining classic horror, H.P. Lovecraft’s tale of a group of doomed Antarctic explorers who discover signs of an ancient civilization older than the human race has not...
Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, coming to BBC TV and reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans...
The timeless Christmas classic from the iconic Dr. Seuss! Read this favourite story of joy, love and acceptance anytime, anywhere!“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!Now, please don’t ask...
With an Introduction and Notes by Linda Dryden, Professor of English Literature at Edinburgh Napier University and the author ofJoseph Conrad and H. G. Wells: The Fin-de Siecle-Literary Scene.At the...
declares Doctor Moreau to hapless narrator Edward Prendick.Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious, moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The Island...
In these 'scientific romances' H. G. Wells sees the present reflected in the future and the future in the present. His aim is to provoke rather than predict.The Sleeperfalls into...
'Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party? 'So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the...