This an ideal gift for children from parents, grandparents, godparent, aunts, uncles and family friends. It contains an anthology of Hans Christian Andersen's best stories, Aesop's Fables, the classic tales of the Grimm brothers and the mystical Celtic stories from Ireland Wales and Scotland. All the books are beautifully illustrated in black and white.

A Boxful of Ghosts 4-Book Boxed Set : Containing: M.R. James's Complete Ghost Stories; Charles Dickens's Ghost Stories (illustrated); Best Ghost Stories; Irish Ghost Stories
Like one, that on a lonesome roadDoth walk in fear and dread,And having once turned round walks on,And turns no more his head;Because he knows, a frightful fiendDoth close behind him tread The world's greatest ghost stories emanate from the British Isles - the superb, donnish tales of M.R. James and those of the wilder and more exotic Celtic imaginations of such writers as Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker - and they are brought together in this handsome boxed set.

This elegant boxed set of all the Bronte sisters' best novels - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - and is beautifully designed, with a real cloth padded top and matt laminated printed sides over 3mm boards, it will be as much at home in the living room as on the bedside table or bureau.

This de luxe five-book boxed set contains A Christmas Carol and two other Christmas Books, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and Bleak House

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. Whether you want to chase after Alice into Wonderland or Mary into The Secret Garden, get caught up with Anne’s mischief in Green Gables or get lost in Hans Christian Andersen’s whimsical fairy tales, these classic stories will take you on unforgettable adventures.Each gorgeous box set includes four beautifully designed, pocket-sized editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll with original illustrations by John Tenniel, illustrated editions of Hans Christian Andersen’s Best Fairy Tales and Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University which he left in 1917 to join the army. Fitzgerald was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, an age inhabited by a generation he defined as 'grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their destructive relationship and her subsequent mental breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. This boxed set contains the four novels that he completed and his most famous selection of short stories.

Containing All Quiet on the Western Front, Birdsong, Goodbye to All That and Poetry of the First World War, this box contains the two best novels of the Great War from either side as well as Robert Graves' unique testimony of his time at the front and a comprehensive anthology of the poetry generated by the war.

Jane Austen's classic romantic novels are now available in a boxed set for all to enjoy! One of the greatest novelists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Austen's works have been turned into motion pictures and translated into multiple languages. Today, her works transcend cultural boundaries, and have become a model for a new generation of romantic stories. This six-title boxed set includes `Pride& Prejudice, Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion,` and `Northanger Abbey.`

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ('the Napoleon of Crime') young men in London wore black armbands. This box contains the complete Sherlock Holmes canon and each of the six books has an Afterword by David Stuart Davies, formerly Editor of Sherlock Magazine. This luxury boxed set containing all of Conan Doyle's novels and stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet and At the Sign of the Four, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow.

The text of this revised Norton Critical Edition of Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel is based on the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation. The editor has made revisions where appropriate; the annotations have also been revised and expanded. Three maps of Napoleon’s campaigns and battles in Russia are included, making the military aspects of the novel easier to follow.