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Fourth in a series of hardcover boxed sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dustjackets. Set 4 contains Morgoth's Ring, The War of the Jewels, The Peoples of Middle-earth and The History of Middle-earth Index.Sku: 9780008669393
The History of Middle-Earth – Box Set #4
By: Christopher Tolkien$170.00 -
The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.Sku: 9780261102217
The Hobbit
By: J.R.R. Tolkien$12.99 -
Out Of StockSince they were first published, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have been two books people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, these works of sweeping fantasy have touched the hearts of young and old alike.Sku: 9780008376109
The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings Box Set
By: J.R.R. Tolkien$189.99 -
The most famous of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic of masterful detection and hair-raising suspense.Sku: 9780140437867
The Hound of the Baskervilles
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle$15.00 -
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic tale of one man’s pure innocence in the face of a society obsessed with power, money, and manipulation.Sku: 9780375702242
The Idiot
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky$25.99By: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky$25.99 Add to cart Quick View -
After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence...Sku: 9780375413926
The Idiot (Hardcover)
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky$42.00 -
This prose rendering by Wesley Callihan of Homer’s great epic is based on the 1883 translation of Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers. Although accurate, the storytelling of the older translation is obscured, sometimes to the point of incomprehension, by the archaic Elizabethan and Sir Thomas Mallory diction and style. This new rendering attempts to preserve the accuracy but make the story far more readable.Sku: 9781944482589
The Iliad
By: Prose Rendered by Wesley Callihan$37.95 -
The Iliad roars with the clamor of arms, the bellowing boasts of victors, the fury and grief of loss, and the anguished cries of dying men. It sings, too, of the sublime magnitude of the world—the fierce beauty of nature and the gods’ grand schemes beyond the ken of mortals.Sku: 9781324076148
The Iliad
By: Homer, Translated by Emily Wilson$25.99 -
E.V. Rieu’s beloved translation of the great war epic of Western literature, revised and updated by D. C. H. Rieu. One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode of the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his conflict with his leader Agamemnon.Sku: 9780140447941
The Iliad
By: Homer, Translated by E. V. Rieu$22.00 -
"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that’s how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore’s faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.Sku: 9780226470498
The Iliad of Homer
By: Homer, Translated by Richmond Lattimore$24.95 -
'The novel has everything: an absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jowl' ~ Jasper Rees, The TimesSku: 9780140435122
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
By: Charles Dickens$13.50 -
In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger—a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction—Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived.Sku: 9780812967258
The Lost World
By: Arthur Conan Doyle$27.99 -
First published in 1980, The Name of the Rose became an international sensation, beguiling readers around the world with its mix of history, humor, and intellectual heft.Sku: 9780063279636
The Name of the Rose
By: Umberto Eco$24.99 -
The Nine Tailors is Dorothy L. Sayers's finest mystery, featuring Lord Peter Whimsey, and a classic of the genre.Sku: 9780156658997
The Nine Tailors
By: Dorothy L. Sayers$23.99 -
The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats - shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon - Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.Sku: 9780141192444
The Odyssey
By: Homer$34.00 -
Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage and family; about travellers, hospitality, and the yearning for home.Sku: 9780393356250
The Odyssey
By: Homer, Translated by Emily Wilson$24.95