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Book cover of Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Bram Stoker's terrifying gothic novel, the book that invented the world's most famous vampire, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imprisoned in a Transylvanian castle by his mysterious host. Back at home his fiancée and friends are menaced by a malevolent force which seems intent on imposing suffering and destruction. Can the devil really have arrived on England's shores? And what is it that he hungers for so desperately?

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Book cover of Emma by Jane Austen

Emma

Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her groundbreaking novel, a story with the most charming and unreliable of heroines, Emma. It comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and is finished with a silk ribbon.

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Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instead spends her time organising her acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the world of romance.

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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Poe's most macabre and irresistible stories with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Edgar Allan Poe's stories uncover the deeply unnerving strangeness lurking within us all. His genius for horror and suspense went on to influence the world, from Freud to Hollywood. This complete collection of his best short stories contains the well-known works 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart' alongside a wide range of delightfully terrifying tales to unsettle and enthrall.

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Book cover of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, the story of the inventor who unleashed a monster, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself in a story of ambition, murder and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein pushed moral boundaries in order to cross the final frontier and create life. But his creation is a monster stitched together from grave-plundered body parts who has no place in the world, and his existence can only lead to tragedy.

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Book cover of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Brontë's great novel, the tale of Jane, one of literature's most memorable, captivating narrators, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and a silk ribbon.

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As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school. A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom. But Thornfield is a house full of secrets, its master a passionate, tormented man, and before long Jane faces her greatest struggle in a choice between love and self-respect.

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Book cover of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the beloved classic of girlhood and sisterhood, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.


The four March girls live together, as different as sisters as can be. There is sensible, romantic Meg and sweet, sunshiny Beth. There is Jo who burns with the ambition to be a writer and there is Amy who wishes for a more beautiful nose. Simple, true, and keenly resonant with life, spirit and affection, Little Women is a beloved classic for the ages.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Oscar Wilde's decadent and disturbing novel of youth, beauty and corruption, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story...

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Book cover of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday with this beautiful gift edition of her irresistibly sharp and funny novel of love, marriage and human nature. It comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

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When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy’s friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love – Jane Austen’s classic romance novel.

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Wuthering Heights

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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Emily Bronte’s dark, passionate, windswept novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.


This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children.

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Book cover of The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Wharton's gilded-age romantic classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. Newland finds Ellen a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.

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Book cover of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the richly romantic Russian classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

From the rich, dark and complex world of Russian high society, a doomed love affair blooms. Anna is beautiful, intelligent – and married. Count Vronsky is a wealthy army officer who pursues her after their meeting at a ball. At first Anna resists his charms, but when she falls passionately in love with Vronsky she will set in motion a catastrophic chain of events. Tolstoy weaves together dozens of lives around the story of a couple prepared to risk everything for love.

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Book cover of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dostoevsky's classic family saga with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three sons: the impulsive and sensual Dmitr, the coldly rational Ivan and the young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the social and spiritual strivings in what was both a golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian history.

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Book cover of Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Le Fanu's gothic vampire classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

One dark night, a carriage crashes deep in the Austrian forest. Laura and her father, inhabitants of a nearby castle, gladly take in Carmilla, the weary traveller who survives the crash. Beautiful and beguiling, Carmilla soon wins Laura’s heart. But this mysterious girl and the love she offers is far more sinister than Laura could possibly have imagined.

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Book cover of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dumas' compelling adventure classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, Edmond Dantès spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works, he uses all he has learnt during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those he holds responsible for his fate. No longer the naïve sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress all those years ago, he reinvents himself as the charming, mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo.

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Book cover of The Iliad by Homer

The Iliad

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Homer's epic poem of gods and warriors, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

High on Mount Olympus, the gods look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate. This is the Iliad: an ancient story whose magnetic characters and moving speeches have an enduring power.

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Book cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Eliot's sweeping and romantic classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Dorothea is bright, beautiful and rebellious. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their lives in the small town of Middlemarch do not proceed as expected and both they and the other inhabitants who live, work and gossip around them must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates and find their places in the world.

This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.