In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died.

A complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions.

The long, drawn-out case of Jarndyce versus Jarndyce provides the background to this novel which takes us into Dickens’ world of impoverished people on the street, lovers fallen on hard times and the grand riches of the upper classes.

This collection includes five stories by influential women writers from the close of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century.

This value-priced slipcase edition includes award-winning productions of Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey.

Highly prized not only for their light irony, humor and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities, Austen's works are regarded by many as some of the greatest novels ever written.

This classic story about Heidi, a five-year-old orphan who is sent to live with her gruff grandfather in the Tyrolean Mountains, has delighted children and adults alike, since first published in 1880.

This highly enjoyable account of the life of Jane Austen is regarded as the classic...

Published in 1886, the story begins with young long-curly-haired Cedric Errol living in New York with his widowed mother.

Here are more than 60 eyewitness accounts of notable historical events beginning with the Spartans at Thermopylae in 480 BC through to and including the Bombing of Hiroshima in 1945....

Six children decide that the only way to restore the fortunes of their family is to go out and do it themselves.

The Woodbegoods, a sequel to Treasure Seekers, reacquaints us with the six Bastable children.