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Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera House, is one of the great icons of horror literature. This tormented and disfigured creature has made his home in the labyrinthine cellars of this opulent building where he can indulge in his great passion for music, which is a substitute for the love and emotion denied him because of his ghastly appearance.

It is in the Opera House that he encounters Christine Daaé whom he trains in secret to become a great singer. Erik’s passionate obsession with a beautiful woman beyond his reach is doomed and leads to the dramatic tragic finale.

When the spirited and fiercely independent Bathsheba Everdene inherits a farm, she becomes an instant anomaly in the rugged English countryside of the 19th century. Determined to run her own life and business, she soon finds her heart and her future entangled with three vastly different men who lay claim to her affection.

Irish author Bram Stoker introduced the character of Count Dracula and provided much of the basis of modern vampire fiction in his 1897 novel Dracula. Written as a series of letters, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and ships’ logs, the story begins with lawyer Jonathan Harker journeying to meet Dracula at his remote castle to complete a real estate transaction.

Included in The Great Gatsby and Other Works are Fitzgerald’s most notable long-form works, all of them tales of wealth, romance, and scandal:
The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned

Originally published in 1865, Lewis Carroll’s exquisite Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass have remained revered classics for generations. The story of Alice, an inquisitive heroine who falls through a rabbit hole and into a whimsical world, has captured the hearts of readers of all ages. Perhaps the most popular female character in English literature, Alice is accompanied on her journey of trials and tribulations by the frantic White Rabbit, the demented and terrifying Queen of Hearts, the intriguing Mad Hatter, and many other eccentric characters.

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself.

More than just a novel of adventure, this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the magical classic of the boy who never grew up with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Wendy, Michael and John are fast asleep when the window of their nursery blows open and lets in a very remarkable boy, Peter Pan, and his fairy, Tinker Bell. Peter entices the three children from their beds and out through the window to Neverland. There, they encounter mermaids, fairies, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily and her tribe, and do battle with a villainous gang of pirates and their leader, the sinister Captain Hook.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Melville's great American epic, a story of a quest and an obsession, and with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on his quest to annihilate his nemesis.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of one of the most charming classics ever written, the story of the one-and-only Anne, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

This is the story of how a bad-tempered, naughty, red-haired orphan charmed a whole town. Anne loves living at the Green Gables, her best friend Diana and dresses with puff sleeves. But she loathes being an orphan, having red hair and being called ‘carrots’ by Gilbert Blythe. She is far from perfect, but Anne Shirley is one of the most irresistible and unique characters in literature.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the beloved classic of girlhood with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the beloved classic of girlhood with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.Professor Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down and destroy a menacing sea monster. However, he discovers that the beast is metal – it is a giant submarine called the Nautilus built by the renegade scientist Captain Nemo. So begins an underwater adventure that takes them from the South Pole to the submerged lost city of Atlantis. From the grandpère of science fiction this is an adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and one renegade scientist.

This stunning collectible edition of The Secret Garden includes elegant faux-leather cover with foil-embossed designs, eight charming illustrations by Charles Robinson.

One of the most beloved stories in children’s literature, The Secret Garden follows the story of Mary Lennox, raised by her British parents in colonial India. When an earthquake makes her an orphan, she is sent to England to live at Misselthwaite Manor with the strange, reclusive uncle she has never met.