Frankenstein is a deeply passionate story of a monstrous creation, which has terrified and chilled readers since its first publication in 1818 and tells the story of doctor Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with the idea of creating life, who plunders graveyards to create new human beings from the bodies of the dead, which he shocks into life by electricity and which are botched creatures, rejected by its creator and denied human companionship, that cause nothing but murder and destruction.

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Print adaptation: William Caxton, Thomas Godfray

Editors: William Thynne, Frederick Startridge Ellis, Rev. Walter William Skeat

Design: William Morris

Illustrations: Edward Burne-Jones

Engraving: William Harcourt Hooper

Cover design: Francis Sangorski

Desktop publishing: Lars Remer

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The Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer published by the Kelmscott Press is what the celebrated poet William Butler Yeats calls the most beautiful of all printed books w...

Author: Bram Stoker

Cover design: Archibald Constable

Desktop publishing: Lars Remer

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This famous novel tells the story of Count Dracula and his attempt to move from

Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead

curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group led by Professor Van

Helsing. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the

purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries ab...

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Illustrations: Sidney Edward Paget

Cover design: Alfred Garth Jones

Desktop publishing: Lars Remer

Printing: Pumbo BV

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One of Britain’s most popular novels, George Orwell’s dystopian tale 1984 is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.

The novel also coined many new words and phrases which regularly appear in popular culture, such as 'Big Brother', 'thoughtcrime', 'doublethink' and 'Newspeak'.

George Orwell, also kno...

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Author: James Joyce

Cover design: Grant Richards

Desktop publishing: Lars Remer

Printing: Pumbo BV

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Shakespeare's Plays or Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies by William Shakespeare was first published by Jaggard & Blount in London in 1623. What is now called the First Folio was in fact the first collection of plays written by William Shakespeare.

The First Folio is distinguished by an elaborate title page, frontispiece with first-state portrait, complete edition with leaves intact, containing Troilus and Cressida and its prologue, Romeo and Juliet ending on Gg. Roman and italic text types, ...

Some people want to be rich, some want to be happy, but most want to be both.

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novel, The Great

Gatsby is a consummate summary of the roaring twenties, extravagance and a

flamboyant demonstration of the Jazz Age which is a phrase that was coined by

the author. F. Scott Fitzgerald decribes the life of those that are rich and

enjoy life on the background of those that are happy but want to be rich to do

the same. Through the narrati...

Herbert George Wells was a British author, that was prolific in many genres of literature, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories.

His non-fiction works of literature include works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.

The author's science fiction novels are so favorably regarded that he is considered the father of science fiction and the originator of this genre.

The First Men in the Moon is the author's magnum op...