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Mansfield Park
(Classics hardcover)
2024 || Hardcover || Jane Austen || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life.
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
2024 || Hardcover || D. H. Lawrence || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper.
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
A Collection of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories
2016 || Hardcover || Edgar Allan Poe || Collector's Library
This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable mysteries. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are key works in the horror canon, while in the 'The Murders in...
Great Expectations
2023 || Hardcover || Charles Dickens || Union Square & Co.
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-m...
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The Silmarillion
2024 || Hardcover || J. R. R. Tolkien || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Special unjacketed hardback edition of the prelude to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. This edition of The Silmarillion features the complete work with a unique cover design and black and red endpaper maps.
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Great Expectations
2024 || Hardcover || Charles Dickens || Collector's Library
One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes to transcend his humble origins and finds himself unexpectedly given the opportunity to live a life of wealth and respectability. Over the course of the tale, in which Pip encounters such famous characters as Miss Havisham, Herbert Pocket and Joe Gargery, he comes to realise that his money is tainted and the girl he loves will not return his affections; happiness mu...
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Prophet
2016 || Hardcover || Kahlil Gibran || Collector's Library
Utterly unique and beloved around the world, The Prophet is a collection of twenty-six poetic essays by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. Telling the story of the prophet Al-Mustafa and his conversations with various acquaintances as he returns home after a long absence, the book touches on subjects of universal concern, including love, friendship, passion, pain, religion and freedom.Thought-provoking, comforting and wise, the simple truths of The Prophet remain compe...
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A Christmas Carol
A Ghost Story of Christmas
2016 || Hardcover || Charles Dickens || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An illustrated, full-colour edition of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
2024 || Hardcover || Harriet Beecher Stowe || Pan Macmillan
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s seminal anti-slavery novel with an afterword by Pat Righelato.