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Vintage Collector's Classics

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Book cover of Emma by Jane Austen

Emma

Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her groundbreaking novel, a story with the most charming and unreliable of heroines, Emma. It comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and is finished with a silk ribbon.

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Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.

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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Poe's most macabre and irresistible stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Edgar Allan Poe's stories uncover the deeply unnerving strangeness lurking within us all. His genius for horror and suspense went on to influence the world, from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of his best short stories contains the well-known works 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside a wide range of delightfully terrifying tales to unsettle and enthrall.

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Frankenstein

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, the story of the inventor who unleashed a monster, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself in a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-plundered body parts who has no place in the world, and his existence can only lead to tragedy.

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Jane Eyre

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Brontë's great novel, the tale of Jane, one of literature's most memorable, captivating narrators, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon.

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As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. But Thornfield is a house full of secrets, its master a passionate, tormented man, and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect.

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Little Women

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


The four March girls live together, as different as sisters as can be. There is sensible, romantic Meg and sweet, sunshiny Beth. There is Jo who burns with the ambition to be a writer and there is Amy who wishes for a more beautiful nose. Simple, true, and keenly resonant with life, spirit and affection, Little Women is a beloved classic for the ages.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Oscar Wilde's decadent and disturbing novel of youth, beauty and corruption, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...

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Pride and Prejudice

Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her irresistibly sharp and funny novel of love, marriage and human nature. It comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

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When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy’s friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love – Jane Austen’s classic romance novel.

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Wuthering Heights

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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Emily Bronte’s dark, passionate, windswept novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.


This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children.

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