Rare Classic Books

The Portrait of a Lady by James Henry is a classic work of English literature, featuring a beautiful portrait of a lady on the cover. This thoughtf...

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

Charles Dickens’s story of selfless Little Nell and her ailing grandfather and their persecution by the magnificently malignant villain Quilp has s...

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...

PINOCCHIO by Carlo Collodi tells the classic tale of a wooden puppet with a knack for mischief, who dreams of becoming a real boy. Follow his adven...

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

Jaico illustrated classics series is a collection of beloved children’s classics read by generations all over the world. Rich with adventures and t...

Henry Fielding's 18th century classic regales the story of Tom Jones and his longing for Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neighbouring...

A legacy of hatred can be a terrible force in life over which not even an enduring love and all the fruits of material success may prevail. Catheri...

An intriguing tale of guilt, desire and suspense from the bestselling author of Finding Ashley.In the late 1930s in New York, Marielle Patterson sh...

Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individua...

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...

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

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...