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Vanity Fair (Thackeray, W.)
Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives. Through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.
€ 3,³⁵
Gulliver's Travels (Swift, J.)
Reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the…
€ 3,³⁵
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stowe, H.B.)
Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery
€ 3,³⁵
Dracula (Stoker, B.)
Bram Stoker's chilling masterpiece, Dracula, is a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.
€ 3,³⁵
Treasure Island (Stevenson, R.L.)
This work of fiction is a tale of pirates and villains, maps, treasure and shipwreck. When young Jim Hawkins finds a package in Captain Flint's sea chest, he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable…
€ 3,³⁵
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson, R.L.)
First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories
€ 3,³⁵
Tristram Shandy (Sterne, L.)
Introduces us to a group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. This book involves the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. It anticipates modernism and postmodernism.
€ 3,³⁵
The Red & The Black (Stendhal)
A historical psychological novel by Stendhal which chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy-yet who…
€ 3,³⁵
Last Man (Shelley, M.)
Presents an apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, this novel unfolds a sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction. Interwoven with a futuristic…
€ 3,³⁵
Frankenstein (Shelley, M.)
Frankenstein is a deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation, which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818.
€ 5,⁵⁰
Winter's Tale (Shakespeare, W.)
A romantic comedy which offers a challenging mixture of tragic and violent events, lyrical love-speeches, farcical comedy, pastoral song and dance, and, eventually, dramatic revelations and reunions.
€ 3,³⁵
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare, W.)
Sir Toby Belch and his companion outwit the pretentious Malvolio, who despite suffering their most outrageous and insulting practical jokes, emerges as an almost noble figure.
€ 3,³⁵