The English Edition

Orwell's classic in a special hardcover edition with silver foil embossing.

London, 1984: Winston Smith, a history falsifier at the Ministry of Truth, falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Julia. Together they begin to question the totalitarian world in which they have functioned until now. George Orwell's vision of a totalitarian state, in which cyber surveillance, historical revisionism and the Thought Police determine the lives of transparent citizens, has only become more urgent to this day.

• »Who controls the past controls the future.« 1984
• Englischsprachige Ausgabe
• »Alles, was man über Politik wissen muß, steht meiner Ansicht nach bei George Orwell« Harald Martenstein

Mary Shelley's iconic book in a special hardcover edition with silver foil embossing. The novel about the young Swiss Victor Frankenstein, who creates an artificial human being, is a rare gem of romantic horror literature: the grandiose narrative skill with which the English author turned her subject into a story that remains popular to this day makes her "Frankenstein" novel stand out far beyond most comparable novels of its era. Hardly any other classic has had as many stage adaptations and film adaptations as Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". The text of this edition follows the 1831 revised edition.

• »If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!« (Frankenstein’s creature)
• »It's alive!« (from Frankenstein)

The primary vampire novel in a special hardcover edition with silver foil embossing. Count Dracula is one of the most famous literary characters in the world. Ever since the vampire novel "Dracula" by Irish writer Bram Stoker was published in 1897, it has been hard to imagine literature and film without it. The aristocratic vampire has been brought to the screen so many times that the mere mention of his name evokes a feeling of fearful anticipation. To this day, Stoker's novel about the young lawyer Harker and the demonic undead Dracula is an eerily beautiful reading experience.

• »The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.« Van Helsing in Dracula

In England, at the turn of the 18th century, the young and beautiful Elizabeth Bennet is faced with a major life decision: the choice of a suitable husband. The smug Mr. Darcy is hardly an option, but the charming Mr. Wickham might be. Elizabeth's overly proud nature obscures her vision again and again. Will she still be able to find happiness in love?

Filled with witty dialogue and sharp social observations, Jane Austen's famous love story is one of the best-loved novels of all time. A hardcover edition embossed with silver foil.

• English Edition for the anniversary year 2025: Jane Austen's 250th birthday
• Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775
• »Do anything rather than marry without affection.« Jane Bennet
• »I have not the pleasure of understanding you.« Mr Bennet in »Pride and Prejudice«
• »I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.« Elizabeth Bennet in »Pride and Prejudice«
• »I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!« Miss Caroline Bingley in »Pride and Prejudice«

A special hardcover edition embossed with silver foil

Whether he's uncovering secret criminal organisations, finding missing persons, breaking mysterious codes or pondering unexplained deaths, Sherlock Holmes solves every case. With his perennial hero, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a blueprint for all detective fiction to come, as well as delightful stories that are still enjoyed today. This hardcover edition embossed with silver foil contains 12 of his best stories, in which the famous detective, accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson, showcases his legendary ingenuity time and again.

Contents:

A Scandal in Bohemia

The Red Headed League

The Five Orange Pips

The Speckled Band

Silver Blaze

The Musgrave Ritual

The Reigate Squires

The Final Problem

The Empty House

The Dancing Men

Priory School

Second Stain

• »It is my business to know what other people do not know.« Sherlock Holmes
• »I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.« Sherlock Holmes
• »There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.« Sherlock Holmes

Headstrong, confident, young, and very beautiful, Emma Woodhouse is one of the great female characters in world literature. Seemingly only concerned with the romance of others, she decides to inject a little more zest into her friends' love lives. But her efforts fail and lead to the strangest of entanglements. It is only in the end that things take a turn for the better. Jane Austen's last novel, published in 1817, one year before her death, still captivates us with its brilliant language, its incisiveness, and the wonderful wit of its dialogues.

• »I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.« Jane Austen about Emma
• English edition for the anniversary year 2025: Jane Austen's 250th birthday
• Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775