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Classic Literature of a Dramatic or Adventurous Genre

Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Love and Mr Lewisham
by H.G. Wells 		from £22.99
Love and Mr Lewisham is a hugely uplifting tale from the pen of one of our greatest writers. Wells drew on his own experience as a young teacher to provide the background and, one suspects, the emotional drama. The plot enables him to satirise the educational establishment and deliver many wry obs ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Dr Wortle's School
by Anthony Trollope 		from £19.99
Dr. Wortle's School is Trollope's most merciless attack on the false moralising and hypocrisy of the Victorian age. When Dr. Wortle, in good faith, hires a couple as teacher and matron at his school, scandal about their marriage is subsequently brought to light. Will the doctor submit to the social pressures brou ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title A Child of the Jago
by Arthur Morrison 		from £14.99
'A Child of the Jago' is both thriller and condemnation of social conditions in the East End slums at the turn of the century. Boy hero Dicky Perrott is at heart full of humane instinct but his environment ensures his down fall. "It was my fate to encounter a place in Shoreditch where children were born and reared in circu ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Greyfriars Bobby
by Eleanor Atkinson 		from £17.99
Bobby, a sparky silver haired Skye terrier, adopts Auld Jock, a worn out simple shepherd, as his master. Jock is 'let go' by the farmer and dies in poverty having suffered one winter too many. The farmer tries to reclaim Bobby as a pet for his daughter but the dog owes allegiance only to Auld Jock, guarding his grave in Gre ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Uncle Silas
by J.S. Le Fanu 		from £24.99
When rich recluse Austin Ruthyn dies from a heart attack, Maud, his daughter is made a ward to the sinister Uncle Silas. Silas is already suspected of the grisly murder of a creditor several years earlier but has never been tried for the crime. Should Maud die before she reaches her majority, Silas will inherit the family f ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Erewhon
by Samuel Butler 		from £19.99
Not only is 'Erewhon' an adventure story but also Butler's satirical inversion of English customs and philosophy in the 19th century. The explorer Higgs discovers a well organised and civilised country - apparently idyllic. However, the body politic has two ruling obsessions, disease is considered a crime and machinery is s ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Kidnapped
by Robert L. Stevenson 		from £17.99
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father's house". So begins one of the greatest tales in literature, an account of David Balfour's trials and tribulations as he falls foul of his mise ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
by Anthony Trollope 		from £11.99
"He was too imperious, too masterful, too much inclined to think that all things should be made to go as he would have them." Thus Trollope describes his hero Harry Heathcote, a settler and sheep farmer in the untamed bush of Australia in 1871. However, Harry has made enemies. In seeking always to act in the honourable fash ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Hard Times
by Charles Dickens 		from £19.99
Set in fictional Coketown in the North of England the `Hard Times' of which Dickens writes are the years of the Industrial Revolution. The story centres on the Gradgrind family. Father Tom is an `eminently practical man' whose emphasis on facts and figures in his family's education suppresses all their sense of ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Moonfleet
by J. Meade Falkner 		from £17.99
A tale of smuggling and mystery on the Dorset coast as told by John Trenchard, a boy obsessed with discovering the secret of Colonel 'Blackbeard' Mohune's hidden treasure. One night, trapped in the Mohune family vault beneath the church, John finds a locket round the Colonel's neck which contains verses from th ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Coral Island
by R. M. Ballantyne 		from £22.99
Heroes Ralph, Jack and Peterkin set sail on the Arrow and are the only three survivors of a fearful shipwreck. They are washed ashore on a seemingly idyllic coral island. This tranquillity is violently disturbed, first by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals and then by the invasion of a vicious pirate and his gan ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Frozen Deep
by Wilkie Collins 		from £11.99
Richard Wardour leaves England on a voyage to the African coast under the impression he is engaged to delicate orphan Clara Burnham. Despite sending him a letter stating the contrary Clara is anxious for her honour. She is aware that he may not have received the missive and is now betrothed to another, Frank Aldersley. ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Sowers
by H.S. Merriman 		from £24.99
A romantic adventure yarn of plotting and corruption largely set against the panorama of Imperialist Russia but with some of the skulduggery taking place in the major capitals of Europe. An old Etonian and half Russian, Prince Paul Alexis, inherits the Osterno estate in the Steppes. Naive and honest, but helped b ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad 		from £25.99
Inspired by an actual terrorist attack on Greenwich Laboratory in 1894 ‘The Secret Agent’ is arguably Conrad’s greatest work. The subtitle ‘A Simple Tale’ is deliberately ironic although the story is indeed more accessible than most of the author’s other writing and despite one time shift, which adds to the su ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Greenmantle
by John Buchan 		from £24.99
The second of Richard Hannays’ adventures takes him from the trenches of the First World War on a mission of vital importance to the British campaign in the East. In an attempt to manipulate their Turkish allies the Germans have created a religious figurehead, a prophet of a new order to unify the disparate tr ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan 		from £13.49
Among the first ‘espionage thrillers’ and an acknowledged classic ‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ well deserves its accolades as one of the best adventure stories of all time. Leaving aside the improbable denouement, the fast paced, brilliantly conceived narrative still excites and carries one along with the sheer sus ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Hole In the Wall
by Arthur Morrison 		from £17.99
Arthur Morrison grew up in the East End of London and was familiar with life on the dockside. He tells the story of ‘The Hole in the Wall’ through the eyes of young Stephen Kemp, taken to live with his grandfather after the death of his mother. Nat Kemp is determined to keep his grandson apart from the seamier side of the D ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Anna of the Five Towns
by Arnold Bennett 		from £19.99
Set in stifled industrial Staffordshire in the late nineteenth century against a strong evangelical background "Anna of the Five Towns" tells of the courting of hard businessman Ephraim Tellright's daughter by prosperous and accomplished Henry Mynors. As her father's fortune grows so does Anna's understanding. She realises ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Monkey's Paw
by W. W. Jacobs 		from £14.99
A collection of short stories by W W Jacobs. Serpents, skinflints, skivers, suitors and sundry sailors take the foreground in these stories about the East End of London and the mythical village of Claybury at the turn of the century. Stories: The Third String, A Mixed P ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Power House
by John Buchan 		from £11.99
John Buchan's hero Edward Leithen chances upon a worldwide plan for domination. With his own life and those of his friends depending on the outcome of his struggle he engages in combat the anarchic brain behind "The Power-House". The Author, despite being very busy in Public Service, wrote over fifty ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Big Foot
by Edgar Wallace 		from £17.99
The brutal murder of a woman in a lonely beach cottage, huge footprints found nearby, a meandering tramp singing snatches of opera in the night! Superintendent Minter - "Sooper", rattles around the countryside on his noisy motorbike and tries to find a connection. Hampered by amateur detective Gordon Cardew, ai ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Ups and Downs
by Stacy Aumonier 		from £17.99
"Stacy Aumonier was profoundly in love with life, and impregnated through and through by curiosity about life and its manifestations. All types were fish to his net; and he has given us the fruits of his passion for existence with a deft and always interesting fidelity. He is never heavy, never boring, never really trivial ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Autobiography of a Supertramp
by W. H. Davies 		from £19.99
At the end of the 19th Century W.H.Davies hustled his way across America, working when he could, begging and stealing when he couldn't. He saw life on the breadline. He was beaten up in New Orleans, thrown into prison in Michigan and was present at lynchings in Tennessee, truly a diarist of the nether side of t ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Father and Son
by Edmund Gosse 		from £22.99
"This story is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs. It ended, as was inevitable, in disruption. Of the two human beings here described, one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward. The affection of these two persons was assail ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Beloved Vagabond
by W.J. Locke 		from £24.99
"To Paragot I owe everything. He is at once my benefactor, my venerated master, my beloved friend, my creator." Thus begins the story of one of the greatest characters of English Literature - Paragot the lovable Bohemian and celebrated Bon Vivant. A young urchin from the London slums is adopted by ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling 		from £14.99
Harvey Cheyne, pampered son of an American millionaire is swept overboard from the deck of a liner and picked up by a small fishing boat, one of several trawling the Grand Banks. He is rapidly confronted by the harsh realities of life and comes to terms with himself amid the hard labour and morality of the redoubtable New E ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Two Years Before The Mast
by Richard Henry Dana 		from £14.99
In 1834 Richard Henry Dana, aged nineteen, broke off his studies at Harvard and enlisted as a Jack-tar on the brig Pilgrim. This is a faithful account of his voyage and experiences including storms round Cape Horn, pursuit by pirates and meeting many strange characters from foreign lands. It details the excruciating day to ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville 		from £11.99
On one level Melville’s tale is an historical adventure story telling of life aboard ship shortly after the mutiny at Spithead in 1797. Billy is taken from a homeward bound merchantman to serve on the ‘Seventy Four’ HMS Indomitable. He falls foul of Claggart, the ‘Master at Arms’, and the final confrontation results in deat ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title John Halifax, Gentleman
by Dinah Craik 		from £39.49
The greatest romantic narrative novel of the early 19th Century, John Halifax, Gentleman, tells the story of an orphan boy whose first words in the story are “Sir, I want work; may I earn a penny.” By hard work, diligent study and an unshakeable faith in his God John attains wealth and happiness, despite much ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith 		from £17.99
The uplifting and heroic tale of a north country clergyman. The story is told by Dr. Charles Primrose, 'a priest, and husbandman and the father of a family'. He lives his life of quiet contentment until he loses his independent income. Moving to a humbler dwelling near the estate of Squire Thornhill starts a series of misfo ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Rodney Stone
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 		from £19.99
As well as penning some of the most popular detective fiction, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling adventure stories. ‘Rodney Stone’ is a combination of both, featuring some of the greatest figures in English history, set against a backdrop of two boys' journey to manhood and the sport of boxing - when it was seen as a noble a ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Four Faultless Felons
by G. K. Chesterton 		from £17.99
In pursuit of the elusive Count Raoul De Marillac, journalist Asa Lee Pinion encounters four of the Count's friends calling themselves "The Club of Men Misunderstood". The men tell of their black and revolting crimes and how these deeds gained them the dubious honour of being made to appear worse than they are. Unusual and ... more on this title.
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