These
beautiful complete and unabridged hardback collector’s library
editions are bound in real cloth, with all edges gilt, head and
tailbands and a ribbon marker. Normally £7.99 each, you can send for
all 4 titles in the Classic Stories Collection for just
£19.99, inclusive of postage and packing.
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K Jerome
(272 pages)
The author of Three Men in a Boat was born in
Walsall on 2nd May,1859. His wonderful story of J, George
and Harris (not forgetting the mischievous Montmorency) and their
boating holiday on the Thames remains one of the best loved and most
entertaining novels ever penned.
The Best
Short Stories of Saki
Hector Hugh Munro
(408
pages)
Hector Hugh Munrobetter
known by the
pen nameSaki, was a
British writer, whosewitty and sometime unusual stories satirized
Edwardian society and culture.
He is considered a master of the
short story and his tales
feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives.
The
Diary of a Nobody
G & W
Grossmith
(216
pages)
The diary
is that of Mr Charles Pooter,
a city
clerk of lower middle-class
status but significant social aspirations..Mr Pooter's unconscious gaffes and
self-importance, as well as the snubs he receives from those he
considers socially inferior (i.e. tradesmen), has spawned the word "Pooterish"
to describe a tendency to take oneself excessively seriously.
The
diary is that of
Mr Charles Pooter, a
city clerk of lower
middle-class status but
significant social aspirations..Mr Pooter's unconscious gaffes and self-importance, as well
as the snubs he receives from those he considers socially inferior
(i.e. tradesmen), has spawned the word "Pooterish" to describe a
tendency to take oneself excessively seriously.
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
(262
pages)
Tom Sawyerrepresents the carefree and wonderful
world of Mark Twain’s American mid-western boyhood in the early-mid
1800s. Aided and encouraged by the socially undesirable Huckleberry Finn,
Tom sets out on a series of adventures that still delight readers of
all ages.