The secret diaries of a twenty-three-year-old White Russian princess who worked in the German Foreign Office from 1940 to 1944 and then as a nurse, these pages give us a unique picture of wartime life in that sector of German society from which the 20th of July Plot -- the conspiracy to kill Hitler -- was born. Read More...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was the first author to write versions of the Greek myths especially for a younger audience. The six tales here include 'The Gorgon’s Head' and 'The Golden Touch', beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane. Read More...

A Romance of Exmoor. The book is set in the 17th century in the Badgworthy Water region of Exmoor in Devon and Somerset, England. John Ridd is the son of a respectable farmer who was murdered in cold blood by one of the notorious Doone clan, a once noble family, now outlaws, in the isolated Doone Valley. Read More...

The oilskin packet that Jim Hawkins takes from Captain Flint's sea cheat turns out to contain a treasure map - one of such value that sailors and rogues would risk their lives to get their hands on it. When Jim sails on the Hispaniola, as cabin-boy he embarks on an adventure unrivalled for excitement and suspense. Read More...

Wood engravings by Garrick Palmer. Introduction by Richard Holmes. A simple tale of a sea disaster, but it carries us into the furthest reaches of the Romantic imagination... Read More...

Selected and edited by Roger Hudson. The object of this book is to show Coleridge in yet another light, as one of the alert, attuned and sensitive recorders of nature, landscape, and the elements. Read More...

A set of four poems, the central focus of which is man's relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. Read More...

The narrative opens in the decade before World War I. We are introduced to the central protagonist of the story, Hans Castorp, the only child of a Hamburg mercantile family who, following the early death of his parents, has been brought up by his grandfather and subsequently by an uncle named James Tienappel. We encounter him when he is in his early 20s, about to take up a shipbuilding career in Hamburg, his home town. Read More...

Engravings by John Lawrence. The reason Hickey's book has acquired classic status are that his really had been a 'strange and variegated life'. In addition, only part of it takes place in India or elsewhere abroad, while the rest is set in London at one of the most attractive and vibrant moments of its history. Read More...

Introduction by Tim Heald. Collection of short stories from the Strand magazine. Read More...