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.
Yellow wallpaper & other stories
The Yellow Wallpaper, first published in January 1892, is regarded as an important piece of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. It explores key issues imposed by the patriarchal society and paved the way for other leading feminist writers; Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics
€4.40 excl tax
Mansfield park
When shy Fanny Price arrives at Mansfield Park to live with her cousins, she is overwhelmed and only put at ease by her cousin, Edmund Bertram, whom she soon comes to love. But Edmund's head is turned by the beautiful Mary Crawford and she and her brother Henry spark a series of romantic entanglements that lead the Bertram family to the brink of social disaster. It becomes apparent to Fanny that
€3.60 excl tax
This side of paradise
Published in 1920, This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It follows the story of protagonist Amory Blaine as he attends Princeton University and later serves in the army in World War 1, whilst exploring the themes of love corrupted by greed and status seeking. As a result of the success of this novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald successfully won over and consequently married h
€4.40 excl tax
Vanity fair
Vanity Fair follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It was first published as a 19-volume monthly serial from 1847 to 1848 and is a satirisation of early 19th-century British society.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with conte
€3.60 excl tax
Madame bovary
The publication of this masterpiece of realism gave rise to an obscenity trial in 1857, which earned Flaubert an acquittal, and established Emma Bovary as one of literature's greatest characters. The eponymous Emma is a victim of the smug, self-deluding French bourgeoisie that Flaubert despised. Trapped in a marriage to a second-rate provincial doctor, she escapes the suffocating confines of her
€3.60 excl tax
Ethan frome
Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. A young girl, Mattie Silver is hired to keep house on the bleak New England farm belonging to Ethan Frome and his sickly wife Zeena, who is her cousin. Mattie completely captures Ethan's heart but the would-be lovers are kept apart by the spiteful Zeena, who then banishes the girl without warning. Before she leaves,
€3.60 excl tax
Pickwick papers
The Pickwick Papers, introducing the inimitable Samuel Pickwick Esquire, was Charles Dickens' first best-seller and every page still bursts with vitality and comic invention. A very welcome addition to the enduringly popular Arcturus Classics series.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary grap
€5.60 excl tax
Inferno
Inferno is the first part of the epic poem: The Divine Comedy, one of the greatest works of western literature. In inferno, Dante imagines the afterlife by representing his own travel through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. Along with stirring adventures and boundless imagination are Dante's reflections on spirituality and the nature of faith and reason in the world. As an allegor
€4.40 excl tax
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