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With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys This edition of The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises the complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, newly reprinted from the original text of The Strand Magazine. It is illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, and the man from whom our images of... (more)

The Chronicles of Narnia

by C. S. Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in C.S. Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory. For here is a world where a witch decrees eternal winter; where there are more talking animals than people; and where battles are fought by Centaurs, Giants and Fauns.

The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

The tales of The Silmarillion were the underlying inspiration and source of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life but never brought it to a final form. Long preceding in its origins The Lord of the Rings, it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien's world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the RIngs look back and in which some of them, such as Elrond... (more)

The Sign of Four (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)

The Sign of Four (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)

by Simon Goodenough, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an... (more)

A Study in Scarlet: Starring Clive Merrison & Michael Williams (BBC Radio Collection)

A Study in Scarlet: Starring Clive Merrison & Michael Williams (BBC Radio Collection)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A dramatization which was first broadcast on Radio 4 in two parts in November 1989. It is the story which introduces the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, the latter being drawn into Holmes's investigations following the discovery of a body in a blood-stained room in Brixton.

The Sign of the Four: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)

The Sign of the Four: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Since her father disappeared ten years ago, Mary has received annually and anonymously a pearl. When she is finally requested to meet the sender she is accompanied by Holmes and Watson. The stranger relates to them a tale of secrecy, hidden treasure and sudden death.

Ender: Book 3

Ender in Exile

by Orson Scott Card

After twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed best-selling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender's Game . In Ender’s Game , the world’s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training school. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they... (more)

Silas Marner

by George Eliot

Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale... (more)

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Chronicles of Narnia

by C. S. Lewis

The Silmarillion

by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Sign of Four (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)

by Simon Goodenough, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet: Starring Clive Merrison & Michael Williams (BBC Radio Collection)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of the Four: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ender in Exile

by Orson Scott Card

Silas Marner

by George Eliot