Arcturus Publishing Limited
Arcturus Publishing Limited is dedicated to creating books that appeal to a broad, international market. Our books aim to combine excellent content, attractive design, great production values and exceptional value for money.
Our non-fiction ranges cover reference, practical art, new age, classics, puzzles and children’s books and we now have more than a 1,000 active titles in our list.
We produce books for the traditional bookstores, for supermarkets, for schools and libraries and for a range of marketing and promotional uses, and the key element to everything we publish is that it aims to be an intelligent and entertaining bridge between the subject and the reader.
Lady chatterleys lover
'I always labour at the same thing, to make the sex relation valid and precious instead of shameful. And this
novel is the furthest I've gone. To me it is beautiful and tender as the naked self.' - D.H. Lawrence
Lady Chatterley's Lover explores the intense affair between the sexually frustrated Connie - whose husband, Clifford, is paralysed from the waist down - and Oliver Mellors, the family
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Hard times
Hard Times is set in Victorian England in the 1850s and the fictitious industrial city of Coketown, where Thomas Gradgrind, 'A man of realities', is obsessed with a misguided utilitarianism that insists on 'nothing but fact', without emotion or imagination.
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Far from the madding crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy''s Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love.
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Gullivers travels
A shipwreck brings Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, where he finds himself in a kingdom of tiny people. This experience is later reversed when he lands among the giants of Brobdingnag. And yet more contrasts lie in store for him between the Houyhnhnms - a race of noble horses - and the savage sub-human Yahoos.
Gulliver's Travels has not been out of print since its publication in 1726. Readers, 'fr
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Tale of two cities
'It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known' is perhaps one of literature's most famous lines. Spoken by the dissolute barrister Sydney Carton as he goes to his death at the guillotine, it sees the end of a passionate story that moves between two great European capitals, London and Paris, before and during the F
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Moonstone
Wilkie Collins' novel is generally considered to be the first full length detective novel in the English language, but in fact it was first published in serial form in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. Written in the form of a series of letters, the story centres around a gem known as the Moonstone because of its association with the Hindu god of the moon, Chandra.
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Last of the mohicans
Published in 1826, The Last of the Mohicans is an adventure story centred on the kinship between white frontiersman, Natty Bumppo - or 'Hawkeye' - and two Mohican Indians, Chingachgook and his son Uncas. The action takes place during the French and Indian War. Alice and Cora, daughters of a British fort commander, are on a perilous journey through the dark forests of western New York. Their Huron
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Phantom of the opera
First published in serial form in Le Gaulois, Gaston Leroux's bitter-sweet tale of love and rejection was inspired by real events that took place at the Paris Opera, now the Opera Garnier, in the 19th century. It tells the tale of the opera singer, Christine, her love for her childhood sweetheart Raoul, and the obsessions of the 'phantom', a disfigured man called Erik who lives beneath the Opera
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Prophet
Gibran's masterpiece has furnished individuals the world over with words of joy or consolation on occasions of birth, marriage, death and all of life's other milestones. The concise and deeply profound discourses cover a whole range of topics on life and the human condition, including love, children, work, delight and sorrow, reason and passion, self-knowledge, freedom, pleasure and beauty.
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Christmas carol
Reading A Christmas Carol has become for many a tradition during the festive season. The character of Ebenezer Scrooge has become the epitome of miserliness, but A Christmas Carol is a story of redemption as Scrooge is visited in turn by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics wo
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On liberty
In this, his most influential work, the great political and social thinker John Stuart Mill examines the relationship of the individual and the state, the ethics of utilitarianism and the essential liberties of individuals, beginning with the right to free thought and speech.
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Metamorphosis
A masterful mix of horror and absurdity which tells the story of travelling salesman Samsa, who wakes up one day to find out he has turned into a giant insect. Kafka's novella has been adapted for film and television a number of times, most recently for radio when BBC's Radio 4 broadcast the story, read by Benedict Cumberbatch, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its first publication.
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Beyond good and evil
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
Expanding on his ideas from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche's radical polemic Beyond Good and Evil undermines the assumptions of traditional morality and encourages us to think more critically about the world in which we live.
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Pensees
Fragments written in preparation of a defence of Christianity, unfinished at Pascalâ€s death in 1669 and published posthumously, Pensées has long been regarded as a literary masterpiece as well as a great work of philosophy and theology.
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