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From Austen to Alcott and Dickens to Dostoyevsky, welcome to the realm of undeniable classics. These best-loved, famous works of fiction open gateways to the past, while showing the present moment in a new light too. Featuring classic stories that have shaped our society, here you'll find our selection of some of the finest novels and tales ever written, in the very best editions.

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Our Bestselling Classics

Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
£16.99
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Little Women
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
£16.99
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Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£16.99
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
£16.99
Hardback
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
£16.99
Hardback
Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
£16.99
Hardback
The Nutcracker
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The Nutcracker
E.T.A. Hoffmann
£9.99
Hardback
Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
£9.99
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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
£16.99
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The Little Prince
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
£14.99
Hardback
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
£16.99
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Sense and Sensibility
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
£16.99
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
£9.99
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
£22.00   £18.99
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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
£5.99
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol (Hardback)
Charles Dickens, Arthur Rackham
£25.00
Hardback
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Dickens practically invented the popular conception of Christmas with this evergreen novella about personal transformation and the grotesqueries of greed. Through Ebenezer Scrooge’s moral journey, A Christmas Carol provides a feel-good festive tale of eternal popularity.
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Classics for Christmas

An Italian Christmas
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An Italian Christmas
Various
£12.99
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Jolly Festive, Jeeves
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Jolly Festive, Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
£14.99
Hardback
A German Christmas
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A German Christmas
Vintage Publishing
£12.99
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Reginald's Christmas Revel
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Reginald's Christmas Revel
Saki
£9.99
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Christmas Stories
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Christmas Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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A Christmas Memory
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A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote
£9.99
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Letters from Father Christmas
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Letters from Father Christmas
J. R. R. Tolkien
£20.00
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Village Christmas
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Village Christmas
Laurie Lee
£9.99
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A Literary Christmas
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A Literary Christmas
British Library
£12.99
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Christmas Poems
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Christmas Poems
Carol Ann Duffy
£20.00
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£25.00
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A Scandinavian Christmas
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A Scandinavian Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen
£12.99
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Dickens at Christmas
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Dickens at Christmas
Charles Dickens
£16.99
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A Merry Christmas
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A Merry Christmas
Louisa May Alcott
£14.99
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A Vintage Christmas
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A Vintage Christmas
Various
£10.99
Hardback

Our Best Classic Gift Editions

Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
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Frankenstein (Deluxe Edition)
Mary Shelley
£30.00
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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
£16.99
Hardback
The Happy Prince & Other Tales
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The Happy Prince & Other Tales
Oscar Wilde
£20.00
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War and Peace
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
£18.99
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The Odyssey
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The Odyssey
Homer
£16.99
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Middlemarch
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
£18.99
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Moby-Dick
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
£18.99
Hardback
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
£25.00
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Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
£16.99
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Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£30.00
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Pride and Prejudice (Deluxe Edition)
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Pride and Prejudice (Deluxe Edition)
Jane Austen
£30.00
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The Little Prince
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
£20.00
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Dickens' Christmas Classic

A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£25.00
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£12.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£10.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£9.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£14.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£8.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£12.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£16.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£14.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£7.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£7.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£3.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£7.99
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Our Best Classic Boxsets

The Brontë Sisters (Boxed Set)
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The Brontë Sisters (Boxed Set)
Charlotte Bronte
£60.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
Jane Austen: The Complete Works
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Jane Austen: The Complete Works
Jane Austen
£120.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
Major Works of Charles Dickens (Boxed Set)
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Major Works of Charles Dickens (Boxed Set)
Charles Dickens
£100.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
The Complete Jane Austen Collection
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The Complete Jane Austen Collection
Jane Austen
£25.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection
Arthur Conan Doyle
£25.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
Thomas Hardy Boxed Set
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Thomas Hardy Boxed Set
Thomas Hardy
£60.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
Little Black Classics Box Set
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Little Black Classics Box Set
Penguin Books Ltd
£100.00
Mixed media product
The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set
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The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set
Homer
£42.00
Hardback
Penguin Modern Box Set
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Penguin Modern Box Set
Penguin Books Ltd
£80.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
The Bronte Sisters Box Set
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The Bronte Sisters Box Set
Anne Brontë
£25.00
Multiple items
The H. G. Wells Collection
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The H. G. Wells Collection
H. G. Wells
£49.99
Multiple items
The Complete Brontë Collection
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The Complete Brontë Collection
Anne Brontë
£25.00
Multiple items, slip-cased
American Classics Collection
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American Classics Collection
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£38.00
Multiple items
The Classic Jules Verne Collection
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The Classic Jules Verne Collection
Jules Verne
£34.99
Multiple items
The Jane Austen Collection
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The Jane Austen Collection
Jane Austen
£60.00
Multiple items
The Jane Austen Collection
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The Jane Austen Collection
Jane Austen
£49.99
Hardback
The Charles Dickens Collection
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The Charles Dickens Collection
Charles Dickens
£49.99
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Our Best Modern Classic Gift Editions

Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
£16.99
Hardback
The Bell Jar
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
£14.99
Hardback
The Virgin Suicides
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The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
£14.99
Hardback
Rebecca
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
£14.99
Hardback
The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£14.99
Hardback
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
£14.99
Hardback
Brave New World
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
£16.99
Hardback
The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
£14.99
Hardback
Jamaica Inn
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Jamaica Inn
Daphne Du Maurier
£14.99
Hardback
Brideshead Revisited
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Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
£16.99
Hardback
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
£20.00
Hardback
Excellent Women
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Excellent Women
Barbara Pym
£14.99
Hardback
The Enchanted April
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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth Von Arnim
£14.99
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A Clockwork Orange
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
£25.00
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The Master and Margarita
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
£15.99
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Animal Farm
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
£10.99
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Great Classic Fiction Gifts 

The World of Hercule Poirot
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The World of Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie Ltd
£16.99
Jigsaw
Bucket List Bookmark
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Bucket List Bookmark
IF - THE PUBLISHER
£8.99
Bookmark
221B Baker Street
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221B Baker Street
GIBSONS
£25.99
Game
The World of Jane Austen
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The World of Jane Austen
John Mullan
£16.99
Game
Pride And Purrjudice Cloth Bag
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Pride And Purrjudice Cloth Bag
Gift Smith
£14.99
General merchandise
Books Are My Bag Poonam Mistry
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Books Are My Bag Poonam Mistry
Booksellers Association
£15.99
General merchandise
Alice Mini Notebook Set Of 3
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Alice Mini Notebook Set Of 3
Museums And Galleries
£7.99
Notebook / blank book
Tales of the Greek Heroes
Tales of the Greek Heroes - Puffin Clothbound Classics (Hardback)
Roger Lancelyn Green
£14.99
Hardback
10+ in stock
Usually dispatched within 2-3 working days
Discover the mysterious and exciting legends of the gods and heroes in Ancient Greece, from the adventures of Perseus, the labours of Heracles, the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, to Odysseus and the Trojan wars.
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Our Best Children's Classics

The Dark is Rising
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The Dark is Rising
Susan Cooper
£14.99
Hardback
The Box of Delights
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The Box of Delights
John Masefield
£12.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£12.99
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The Secret Garden
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The Secret Garden
Frances Burnett
£25.00
Hardback
Grimms' Fairy Tales
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
George Cruikshank
£14.99
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Charlotte's Web
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Charlotte's Web
E. B. White
£14.99
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Watership Down
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
£16.99
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The Wind in the Willows
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The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
£25.00
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Tales of the Greek Heroes
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Tales of the Greek Heroes
Roger Lancelyn Green
£14.99
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Anne of Green Gables
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Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
£9.99
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Tales from Shakespeare
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Tales from Shakespeare
Charles Lamb
£14.99
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
£14.99
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Black Beauty
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
£14.99
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Peter Pan
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Peter Pan
J M Barrie
£9.99
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Our Best Classic Anthologies & Collections

The Penguin Classics Book
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The Penguin Classics Book
Henry Eliot
£30.00
Hardback
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter
£14.99
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Fairy Tales
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Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
£25.00
Hardback
Classic Cat Stories
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Classic Cat Stories
Becky Brown
£10.99
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New York Stories
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New York Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£12.99
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Classic Dog Stories
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Classic Dog Stories
Ned Halley
£10.99
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Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables
Agnes Miller Parker
£30.00
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London Stories
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London Stories
Everyman
£15.00
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Tales of the Jazz Age
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Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£14.99
Hardback
The Birds And Other Stories
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The Birds And Other Stories
Daphne Du Maurier
£14.99
Hardback
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
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The Penguin Modern Classics Book
Henry Eliot
£30.00
Hardback
The Collected Stories
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The Collected Stories
Alexander Pushkin
£16.99
Hardback
The Complete Short Fiction
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The Complete Short Fiction
Oscar Wilde
£8.99
Paperback
Classic Christmas Crime Stories
Classic Christmas Crime Stories - Macmillan Collector's Library (Hardback)
David Stuart Davies
£10.99
Hardback
10+ in stock
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Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. The stories in Classic Christmas Crime Stories have been selected and introduced by writer David Stuart Davies.
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Macmillan Collector's Library Classics

Classic Christmas Crime Stories
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Classic Christmas Crime Stories
David Stuart Davies
£10.99
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Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
£9.99
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Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines
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Greek Myths: Heroes and Heroines
Jean Menzies
£10.99
Hardback
The Phantom of the Opera
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
£10.99
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Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses
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Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses
Jean Menzies
£10.99
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Little Women
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
£10.99
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The Prophet
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
£10.99
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Emma
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Emma
Jane Austen
£10.99
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Ghost Stories
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Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens
£10.99
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Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
£10.99
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Complete Ghost Stories
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Complete Ghost Stories
M. R. James
£10.99
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Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
£10.99
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
£10.99
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
£10.99
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Meditations
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
£10.99
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
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Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Brothers Grimm
£11.99
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Everyman's Library Pocket Classics

Christmas Stories
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Christmas Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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Cat Stories
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Cat Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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Scottish Stories
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Scottish Stories
Sir Walter Scott
£12.99
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Dog Stories
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Dog Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£12.99
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London Stories
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London Stories
Everyman
£15.00
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Stories of Books and Libraries
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Stories of Books and Libraries
Jane Holloway
£12.99
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Ghost Stories
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Ghost Stories
Peter Washington
£15.00
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Stories of the Sea
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Stories of the Sea
Diana Secker-Tesdell
£12.99
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Detective Stories
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Detective Stories
Peter Washington
£12.99
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Garden Stories
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Garden Stories
Diana Secker-Tesdell
£12.99
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Stories of Motherhood
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Stories of Motherhood
Various
£15.00
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Love Stories
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Love Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£15.00
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Bedtime Stories
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Bedtime Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£12.99
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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
Various
£12.99
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Horse Stories
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Horse Stories
Diana Secker Tesdell
£12.99
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Erotic Stories
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Erotic Stories
Rowan Pelling
£15.00
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Stories from the Kitchen
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Stories from the Kitchen
Diana Secker Tesdell
£12.99
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Fishing Stories
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Fishing Stories
Henry Hughes
£12.99
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Classics Reimagined - the Greats as Graphic Novels

DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune
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DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune
Frank Herbert
£17.99
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The Hobbit
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The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
£16.99
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
£18.99
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The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
£20.00
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George Orwell's 1984
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George Orwell's 1984
Matyáš Namai
£16.99
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Scarlett Rickard
£18.99
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Brave New World: A Graphic Novel
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Brave New World: A Graphic Novel
Aldous Huxley
£20.00
Hardback
Animal Farm
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
£14.99
Paperback
The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£16.99
Paperback
Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
£12.99
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
Dan Watter
£26.99
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A Christmas Carol
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
£11.99
Paperback
Ulysses
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Ulysses
Nicolas Mahler
£17.99
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Swann's Way
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Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
£19.99
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City of Glass
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City of Glass
Paul Auster
£12.99
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Small Gods
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Small Gods
Terry Pratchett
£14.99
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Reading for School

Never Let Me Go
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
£9.99
Paperback
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
£8.99
Paperback
The Handmaid's Tale
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
£9.99
Paperback
Animal Farm
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Animal Farm
George Orwell
£7.99
Paperback
The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
£7.99
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Pride and Prejudice
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
£5.99
Paperback
An Inspector Calls
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An Inspector Calls
J. B. Priestley
£9.99
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Lord of the Flies
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
£9.99
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Frankenstein
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
£7.99
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The Woman in Black
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The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
£9.99
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
£9.99
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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
£7.99
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Macbeth
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
£7.99
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Great Expectations
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
£5.99
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
£7.99
Paperback