Complete and unabridged.  A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When Jonathan Harker is summoned to Transylvania to finalize a property deal for the mysterious Count Dracula, he stumbles upon an ancient evil he is unprepared to face. When that evil escapes to England, the entire nation is suddenly under threat and only an aged vampire hunter, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, can put a stop to the bloodshed.  Sensual, dark and thrilling,  Bram Stoker's  "Dracula" remains the seminal work of Gothic fiction, and in this elegant "Macmillan Collector's Library" edition, which includes an  ...  | 
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Complete and unabridged.  A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Shooting stars tear across the night sky, then a gigantic artificial cylinder descends from Mars to land near London. Inquisitive locals gather round, only to be struck down by a murderous Heat-Ray. Giant destructive machines disgorge from the cylinder, destroying everything in their path on a merciless march towards the capital. Can humanity survive this Martian onslaught?  A gripping adventure written in semi-documentary style, "The War of the Worlds" by  H. G. Wells  is the seminal man versus machine adventure which has inspired countless  ...  | 
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Complete and unabridged.  A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Frankenstein" is the most famous novel by  Mary Shelley: a dark parable of science misused. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator. So begins a cycle of destruction, with Frankenstein and his "monster" pursuing each other to the extremes of nature until all vestiges of their humanity are lost. In 1831, Mary  ...  | 
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Complete and unabridged.  A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daughter, Milly. So when an enigmatic Englishman offers him an extra income in return for a little spying, he is sorely tempted... But when the fake reports he's been sending to London start to come true, Havana suddenly becomes a very dangerous place indeed.  Both a brilliant Cold War thriller and hilarious work of satire, "Our Man in Havana" is  Graham  ...  | 
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Книгата е част от поредицата "Кралете на трилъра" на издателство "Бард". ... Дълбоко в арктическия лед се намира нещо смайващо. То е очаквано от години. В него се крие невероятна загадка. Рейчъл Секстън е изпратена в арктическата станция, за да потвърди автентичността на находката. Това, на което се натъква, поразява с мащаба си и заплашва да хвърли света в хаос. Но Рейчъл е безпомощна, защото "артефактът" се пази от отряд съвършени убийци. Кой ги е изпратил? И защо? Отговорът е с гриф "Свръхсекретно"! ...  | 
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Why has the mild mannered Dr. Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr. Hyde? And why are they never seen together? When Jekyll's old friend Utterson tries to solve these mysteries he uncovers a horrific story of suffering and brutality that eventually leads to the terrible revelation of Mr. Hyde's true identity.  Accompanied here by three other memorable stories of horror, murder and the supernatural, "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic literature by  Robert Louis Stevenson, and one of the most  ...  | 
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Ned Halley.  A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "The Beautiful and Damned",  F. Scott Fitzgerald's  second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. Anthony and his wife Gloria are young and gorgeous, rich and leisured, and dedicate their lives to the reckless pursuit of happiness. But this intimate story turns tragic, as their marriage disintegrates under the weight of their expectations, dissipation, jealousy and aimlessness.  Fitzgerald skilfully portrays the east-coast elite as the Jazz Age  ...  | 
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В това издание са включени пет от най-известните новели на Томас Ман (1875 - 1955) - един от най-големите германски писатели и носител на Нобелова награда за литература: Дребният господин Фридеман (1897), Тристан (1903), Тонио Крьогер (1903), Смърт във Венеция (1911), определяно като най-доброто произведение, написано на немски език, и Марио и фокусникът (1930).  И петте произведения се отличават с размисли за противоречивия и мъчителен процес на творчеството, както и с финия анализ на чувствата, с дълбок до болезненост психологизъм, с разсъждения за желанието за смърт и за смъртта като безсмъртие. С тези новели, подбрани  ...  | 
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Complete and unabridged.  A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", one of the best-known and best-loved poems in the English language, a grizzled old sailor stops a man on his way to a wedding and tells a terrifying story. He speaks of how he doomed the crew of his ship by shooting dead an albatross, awakened the wrath of ocean spirits, met Death himself, and must now walk the earth for ever and share his tragic tale of sin, guilt and - ultimately - redemption.  This  Macmillan Collector's Library  edition of  Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s  longest major poem features  ...  | 
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Complete and unabridged with an afterword by Jonty Claypole.  A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... 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  ...  | 
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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. ... A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beats. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance.  First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrates and widely read of modern  ...  | 
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"Когато една сутрин след неспокойни сънища Грегор Замза се събуди в леглото си, установи, че се е превърнал в гигантско насекомо." Така започва знаменитата новела на  Франц Кафка  Метаморфозата, в която преобразеният герой става, поради своята различност, бреме и обект на срам и отвращение дори за най-близките си, чужденец в собственият си дом. Ужасяваща и абсурдна картина на отхвърлеността и вината, Метаморфоза се нарежда сред най-четените и с най-мощно влияние белетристични творби, въплътили страховете и кошмарите на XX век. "Кафка умееше да открои скритата яркост. При него сякаш се разбулва море от  ...  |