Classic Comic

The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller! Before the beginning... The mining ship Red Dwarf is in orbit around Saturnian moon Titan, and the bulk of the crew is heading down for their shore leave plans: A strangely reluctant hen party; a relaxing cheaty golfing break; a terminally-boring cultural...

His name became an adjective. "Rabelaisian" — exuberant, earthy, riotous, gigantic — names a whole register of human comedy, and it descends from this one sprawling, indestructible book. Gargantua and Pantagruel is the fountainhead from which Swift, Sterne, Joyce, and nearly every other great comic writer have drunk: the tale of two genial giants — their wars and feasts and educations — and the long uproarious sea-voyage to consult the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. This edition gathers the complete work — all five books — in the translation that is itself a classic of English prose...

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically...

This annotated edition of The Pickwick Papers includes: • A 13,000-word critical study, "The Innocent Abroad" • On Sam Weller — the character who made the book a sensation • On the accident that turned a picture-book into a novel • A full life of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) • A reader's guide to Regency inns, coaches, and the law In 1836 an unknown twenty-four-year-old was hired to write the words beneath another man's comic drawings. Eighteen months later he was the most famous writer in the world. The Pickwick Papers is the book that invented Charles Dickens — and, very ...

Listen along as Woody and the gang go on a campout; Anna, Elsa, and Olaf have a slumber party; Pongo puts his puppies to bed; and more! With one story for every day of the year, bedtime has never been so much fun...

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking...

Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American...

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the...

Soon to be an original movie on Disney+. The beloved 2014 Newbery Medal winner by former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Kate DiCamillo. Holy unanticipated occurrences! It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences...

Brought to you by Penguin. No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George...

The internationally beloved novel by dream literary collaborators and internationally bestselling writers, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Soon to be a massive new TV launch on Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, a series written and show-run by Neil himself and starring David Tennant, Michael...

Here are the favorites from Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, and more. And that is not to forget perhaps the greatest of them all: Anon. There are ballads, sonnets, proverbs, and nonsense verse. Poems to inform, divert, satirize, castigate and praise. A collection to make all listeners smile, laugh, remember and discover.

'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday Telegraph Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr...

Two copy-clerks. One park bench. An unlimited inheritance. A catastrophic idea. When Bouvard and Pécuchet meet on a Paris bench in 1838 and discover they have each written their name in the band of their hat, they form a friendship that will last a lifetime — and consume it entirely. Inheriting a fortune, they retire to the Norman countryside with a bold ambition: to master every field of human knowledge. They begin with agriculture. It fails. Then chemistry. Then medicine, archaeology, history, philosophy, and religion. Each new subject is approached with identical enthusiasm; each ends...

Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth...

Bloomsbury presents Mrs Tim of the Regiment by D.E. Stevenson, read by Rebecca McClay The classic comic novel based on the author's real experiences as the wife of a British Army officer in the 1920s ‘The writer's unflagging humour, her shrewd, worldly wisdom, and her extremely realistic...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM FROM ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING VISIONARY GUILLERMO DEL TORO NOMINATED FOR NINE ACADEMY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic classic accompanied by the art of legendary illustrator Bernie Wrightson live on in this gorgeous illustrated adaptation of...

Brought to you by Penguin. The essential Judge Dredd graphic novel series - the ultimate introduction to the Lawman of the Future! An unusual delivery is made to the Grand Hall of Justice, a package that will force Dredd to lead a mission into the Cursed Earth and into the darkest recesses of...

A narrative history of the popular television show Batman: The Animated Series, including exclusive interviews and never-before-shared stories from the making of the series. At a time when televised cartoons―especially within the superhero genre―were often over-looked, Batman: The Animated...

Goodbye A Comic Novel of Love, Deception, and Postwar Japan What would you do if you had ten mistresses—and suddenly decided to become respectable? Three years after the end of World War II, magazine editor Shūji Tajima has had enough. Tired of the black market, tired of drinking, and tired of his tangled romantic life, he dreams of settling down with his wife and child. There is only one problem: How does a man break up with all his mistresses at once? Following the absurd advice of a cynical writer, Tajima devises a plan. He will find an extraordinarily beautiful woman, pretend she is ...