A collection of favourite classic poems by some of our best loved poets including Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Thomas Love Peacock, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Algernon Charles Swinburne and others.

Here is a collection of 41 favourite classic children's poems by some of our best loved writers including Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling and others.

A collection of seventeen classic tales of the macabre and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “Man-Size in Marble” and “The Letter in Brown Ink”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Sphinx” and “The Angel of the Odd”Arthur Conan Doyle - “The Case of Lady Sannox” and “Playing with Fire”Henry Seton Merriman - “The Tale of a Scorpion”M.R. James - “The Ash Tree”Robert Louis Stevenson - “The Body-Snatcher” and “Markheim”Mary Elizabeth Braddon - “The Cold Embrace”Wilkie C...

Another collection of sixteen classic tales of the macabre and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “John Charrington's Wedding”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” Arthur Conan Doyle - “The Leather Funnel” and “The Horror of the Heights”M.R. James - “Lost Hearts” and “A Warning to the Curious”Saki - “ Sredni Vashtar” and “Gabriel Ernest”Hugh Walpole - “The Tarn” and “The Tiger”E.F. Benson - “Naboth's Vineyard” and “Mrs Amworth”F....

THE TOYS OF PEACE AND OTHER PAPERS by "Saki" (H. H. Munro) is a collection of 33 "papers" or short stories, which were originally published separately in various journals and later issued in one volume in 1919, three years after the writer's death in the Great War. They are some of the most delightful of literary miniatures.They are: The Toys of PeaceLouiseTeaThe Disappearance of Chrispina UmberleighThe Wolves of CernogratzLouisThe GuestsThe PenanceThe Phantom LuncheonA Bread and Butter Mi...

“Reginald”, published in 1904, was the first of Saki's collections of short stories. The eponymous Reginald is an effete, cynical young man-about-town, whose character is a vehicle for Saki's delicicous biting wit satirizing Edwardian high society.Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name “Saki”, was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmo...

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this first volume there are 22 glittering examples.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. Later ...

The story follows the eponymous hero and his tutor Doctor Pangloss through a series of adventures and misfortunes all the time doggedly attempting, against the odds, to adhere to the Doctor's philosophy that “all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.”

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this third volume there are 21 glittering examples.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. L...

A third collection of eighteen classic tales of the weird and supernatural by some of the best known writers in these genres.E.Nesbit - “In the Dark” and “No. 17”Edgar Allan Poe - “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”Arthur Conan Doyle - “The New Catacomb”M.R. James - “Wailing Well” and “Rats”Saki - “ The Hounds of Fate” and “The Peace of Mowsle Barton”Hugh Walpole - “Field with Five Trees” and “The Silver Mask”E.F. Benson - “The Thing in the Hall” and “The W...

The Chronicles of Clovis, which was published in 1911,was the third of Saki's collections of short stories. The character of Clovis Sangrail is, like Saki's earlier hero Reginald, vain, sarcastic and self regarding and another vehicle for Saki's delicious, biting wit satirizing Edwardian high society in some of the funniest of exquisite literary miniatures.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. Fr...

The delicious, biting wit of Saki's short stories satirizing Edwardian high society are some of the funniest and most delightful of exquisite literary miniatures. In this second volume there are 22 glittering examples.Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Monro. He was born in Burma in 1870 where his father was a senior official in the Burma Police. From the age of two he lived with two maiden aunts and his grandmother in Devon and was educated in Exmouth and at the Bedford Grammar School. ...