A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'.

Blends the supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial. This work treats love as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical.

Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works

With these two classic novels in one, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, you will gain a brilliant foundation of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Reading pleasure rarely comes any finer.

Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the eighteenth century, this book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'.

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd.

Seen through Black Beauty's eyes, the story tells of his idyllic upbringing and the hardship and cruelty he suffers, before finding security and happiness in a new home.

Voltaire was the nom de plume of Francois-Marie Aroue, an 18th-century philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide, a biting satire on the philosophy of the time, is considered his finest work.