Auk Classics imprint: 344 books

The gruesome tale of the murderous barber of Fleet Street has thrilled readers for centuries. Whether or not Todd was a real person has been heavily debated, but the urban legend he spawned is still as horrifying and fascinating today.

No author is more associated with Christmas-time than Charles Dickens. This collection contains two of his festive short novels: 'The Chimes' and 'The Holly Tree'.

D. H. Lawrence's classic two-part story, originally published as 'The Escaped Cock', is a re-imagining of the Biblical story of the Resurrection. The author himself described the story in a letter to his friend Earl Brewster thusly:'I wrote a story of the Resurrection, where Jesus gets up and feels very...

A fantastic collection of 24 short stories from the English master of literature Charles Dickens.

Contains fifteen short stories (six adventure and nine medical) by eminent author and creator of the immortal Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Twenty-one short stories from the Russian master of the genre Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.Includes the stories:The SchoolmistressA Nervous BreakdownMiseryChampagneAfter the TheatreA Lady's StoryIn ExileThe Cattle-DealersSorrowOn Official DutyThe First-Class PassengerA Tragic ActorA TransgressionSmall FryThe...

Three fantastic novels from the king of Old West fiction, Zane Grey. Includes Riders of the Purple Sage, The Border Legion and The Lone Star Ranger. Over a hundred different films, and a TV series, have been based on Grey's novels.

Three fantastic novels from the king of Old West fiction, Zane Grey.Includes Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and The Rustlers of Pecos County.Over a hundred different films, and a TV series, have been based on Grey's novels.

A fantastic adventure novel by the master of juvenile fiction Robert Michael Ballantyne about life in the London Fire Brigade.

A fantastic historical novel about the first English fleet, written at the end of the 19th century by Reverend Charles Watts Whistler.

The fifth novel in E. F. Benson's classic 'Mapp and Lucia' comedy series following the lives of Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp in the one-upmanship and snobbery of the 1920s/30s British social scene.

A collection of ten short stories by Thomas Hardy, many of them set in his famous fictional county of Wessex.

A choice selection of one-act plays from the Nobel Prize for Literature and Academy Award winning playwright George Bernard Shaw.Includes:• Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce• The Dark Lady of the Sonnets• How He Lied to Her Husband• The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta• Overruled• Press Cuttings

The fourth novel in E. F. Benson's classic 'Mapp and Lucia' comedy series following the lives of Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp in the one-upmanship and snobbery of the 1920s/30s British social scene.