About the books:

Republished in beautiful & striking new hardcovers, and furnished with insightful introductions, these editions bring a series of modern classics back to life. From the enigmatic & playful post-modern world of If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, to the unsettling dystopia created in Brave New World, all the way to the Golden-Booker-Winning magic-realist epic Midnight's Children, these books are sure to inspire and excite readers for years to come by bringing them some of the finest works of writing from the last century.

Included are the following 18 titles:

• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• Brave New World by Alduous Huxley
• The Night Circus by Eren Morgenstern
• Stoner by John Williams
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
• The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• If On a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
• Brave New World by Alduous Huxley
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller