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This edition of Emily Bronte's poems contains a substantial amount of extra material, including notes, pictures and a section on Bronte's life and works.

Brand-new translation from acclaimed translator Hugh Aplin of One of the best-selling Russian classics in the UK over the last year.Includes many stories never translated into English before

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters - the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester - respond to an advertisement in The Times offering a medieval castle to rent in Italy that April. As their joint holiday begins, tensions fl are up between them, but they soon bond over their past misfortunes and rediscover hope and the pleasures of life in their tr...

The latest instalment in "The Adventures of Miss Charlotte" series. Illustrated by Tony Ross, this story conveys a message encouraging self-belief against the odds.

This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati, author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the most original voices in twentieth-century literature.

The sheltered Laura Sheridan gains a sense of class consciousness and injustice as she mixes with the staff preparing her family's garden party. Published in 1922, at the height of literary modernism.

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald's death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a collection of personal essays, notes and letters that chronicle the late author's state of mind in his darkest moments. In turns philosophical and personal, these musings lay bare the anguish and turmoil of a life falling apart, yet manifest a degree of hope for the future and a determination to hang on. Providing inv...

Alma Classics edition of The Professor is here presented with a comprehensive extra material section, including notes on the text, pictures and information on Bronte's life and works

Presented here in a brand-new translation, The Forged Coupon examines the deep, unpredictable consequences of every human act, revealing the Russian master's moral preoccupations in the last years of his life, as well as his rejection of Christianity's simplistic division between good and evil.

A new edition of the classic children's novel, with illustrations by Ella Okstad. Ages: 9+

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first, " Jerome K. Jerome What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris - not forgetting Montmorency the dog - but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the way. From becoming impossibly lost in the maze at Hampton Court to battles with tins of pineapple chunks, all the while a...

An account of the birth, the infancy, the schooling, the diet-planning, the unconventional love affairs and the attainments of this child prodigy, The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus is surely the funniest imaginary biography ever written.

One of the most popular French children's classics translated into English for the first time. First published in 1965, it is a heartwarming story of camaraderie, adventure and freedom.

The oft-overlooked shorter verse of Pushkin is brought together in this series, with this volume focusing on the verse from 1824 to 1830.

The oft-overlooked shorter verse of Pushkin is brought together in this series, with this volume focusing on the verse from 1817 to 1824.

As the big day looms, can the children enter their respective races and win the longed-for prize? A new edition of one of the greatest children's classics of American literature with illustrations from Peter Bailey. Set for re-promotion around Christmas. Ages: 9-11yrs.

This most acclaimed of Kafka's three novels is a disorientating evaluation of personal freedom and its uneasy relationship with state power, eerily anticipating the totalitarian excesses it preceded.

Initially published in 1759 to a reception of controversy, this is the picaresque adventure of young and sheltered nobleman Candide through a darker world than he had initially envisioned.

Gilbert becomes captivated by the new tenant of Wildfell Hall, and quickly becomes immersed in the shocking truth of her past. A prodigious defence of women's rights for its time, reissued as part of the "Alma Classics Evergreens" range.

Included in this volume are the original two-canto version of The Rape of the Lock and Pope's hilarious mock-interpretation of the poem as a seditious work, A Key to the Lock.