20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A premier adventure novel and one of the most loved science fiction classics of all time. It’s 1866 when a
Category: Classic Literature
BUtterfield 8
The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York’s speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American
Dorothy L. Sayers: Lord Peter Wimsey, Montague Egg & more
Crime classics featuring the gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey and amateur sleuth Montague Egg, plus a bonus short story and two programmes
The Martian Novels (Annotated)
In 1912, a Confederate veteran named John Carter lay down in an Arizona cave, gazed up at the red planet,
Appointment in Samarra
The writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald,” makes his
The Ultimate Iliad & Odyssey
The ultimate, full-cast dramatisations of Homer’s two epic Greek masterpieces, with exceptional casts including Derek Jacobi, Christopher Eccleston, Tim McInnerny
The Heart of the Nhaga
Welcome to Lee Young-do’s epic classic series, The Bird That Drinks Tears. The master of Korean fantasy—often cited as the
Darkness at Noon
A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost — Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. British poet and polemicist
North and South
Written at the request of Charles Dickens, North and South is a book about rebellion; it poses fundamental questions about the nature
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
Lord Arthur Saviles’s Crime is a masterpiece of polished cynicism, in which poison, explosive clocks, and finally murder forerun married bliss.
Heart of Darkness
Join Marlow on a fascinating and disturbing journey deep into the jungle. Hired to captain an old steamboat, his mission
