William Shakespeare. Sonnets The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published - that is to say, entered at Stationers' Hall by the publisher Thomas Thorpe - on 20th May 1609. This 400th-anniversary edition contains all of the poems and they deal with many of Shakespeare's most common themes:...

Poe Edgar Allan. Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe This companion volume to Tales of Mystery & Imagination contains Poe's best-known poetry and a selection of his very best stories, including some fine tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems reflect familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, b...

Marcus Clapham. Limericks The Limerick packs laughs anatomical into space that is quite economical, but the good ones I've seen so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so rarely are comical. This collection of witty Limericks, some clean, many filthy, and some packed with double-entendre has been assembled to add gaiety to n...

William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money-lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio but its modern audiences find it more problematic to categorize. The vilification of Shylock 'the Jew'...

Jane Austen. Sanditon, Lady Susan & the History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites. It represents what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen's literary work-basket, and contains some Austen's earliest work - her hilarious brief History of England, illustrated by her favourite sister, which is a worthy forerunner of 1066 & All That,...

Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll: The Complete Illustrated Works Lewis Carroll is best known for his two books describing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but he was a prolific author of fantasy and nonsense verse, which are represented here in the complete Sylvie and Bruno and The Hunting of the Snark. Also included are early verse...