Gustave Le Bon 
Crowd; study of the popular mind 

The Rover Boys, also known as The Rover Boys Series for readers of all ages, was a well-known children’s book series authored by Edward Stratemeyer using the pen name Arthur M. Winfield. This …

Charles Dickens died half way through writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood , and ever since speculation has been rife as to how the tale might have unfolded. For this intriguing two-part adaptation for …

The Rover Boys in Business, also countable in The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans, was a well-known children’s book series authored by Edward Stratemeyer using the pen name Arthur M. Winfield. …

»She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.» A selection of Austen»s dark and hilarious early writings – featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, w …

»A tour de force of writing and intelligence» A.S. Byatt Discover one of the greatest first world war novels. Christopher Tietjens has long loved the beautiful young suffragette Valentine, but the …

To mark the publication of Stop What You»re Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook »bundles», to tempt rea …

»The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics» The Times When Nicholas»s father dies he, his mother and sister are left penniless. To ea …

Like all of Hardy’s work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of …

A sequel to the Chinese novel Chin P»ing Mei, this book details the lives, fates and after-fates of the wealthy businessman Hsi Men and his six wives. A brilliant story coupled with the dramatic …

Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his »Circus» of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home lif …