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CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED FULL CATALOGUE

WHAT IS CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED?Exactly that - Classics Illustrated are graphic novels that retell classic works of literature in illustrated form.

Ranging from Homer to Dumas; Oliver Twist to the life story of Abraham Lincoln, Classics Illustrated covers a wide range of tales from all times and perfectly sets the scene of the work in hand for the young reader, instilling in them a joy in reading that will last a lifetime.

The series originally ran from1941 and included nearly 200 titles in its original run, ending in 1971 after estimated sales of over 1 billion copies worldwide.

CCS Books’ reprinted "Vintage Replica" range looks like the originals, but is specifically tailored to engage and educate young readers with some of the greatest works ever written, while still thrilling older readers who have loving memories of this timeless series.

LATEST ADDITIONS

Mark TwainPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238485

Anthony HopePaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238492

VirgilPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238638

Lewis CarrollPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238645

Erich Maria RemarqueHardback|52pp|£9.999781911238232

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781911238300

Jules VerneHardback|52pp|£9.999781911238249

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814151

Victor HugoHardback|52pp|£9.999781911238256

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814175

H. G. WellsHardback|52pp|£9.999781911238263

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814335

INCLUDES:• Author biographies• Dedicated theme discussions• Study questions• Timelines of world events...................................................

SHERLOCK HOLMESConan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery, in whic our beloved detective and his new assistant, Dr Watson must hunt down a deranged killer before it is too late, and the killer strikes again...

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814649

Conan Doyle's third novel featuring "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes. In this adventure, Holmes and Dr Watson must investigate a mysterious and seemingly supernatural family curse!

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781911238461

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

EPIC CLASSICS

HomerPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238454

HomerPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238478

VirgilPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238638

Apollonius of RhodesPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814755

CHARLES DICKENS

After David ‘s widowed mother marries the stern and unforgiving Mr Murdstone, he is sent away. David Copperfield’s journey from boy to man is told, with much adventure, friendship, love and grief.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814670

Dickens’s classic story of the French Revolution. While the turmoil of the Revolution rages around them, the lives of the members of the Evrémonde family are profoundly affected by the actions of one man - Sydney Carton.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814618

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby becomes a schoolteacher in a boys’ school in Yorkshire to support his family. There he sees injustices and cruelty and stands up to the schoolmasters to right these wrongs.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814588

Dickens's tale of Pip, who is called upon by the mysterious Miss Havisham to entertain her, and who later receives support from an unexpected benefactor...

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814434

Dickens's tale of the young orphan, Oliver Twist, and his experiences in London.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814038

Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238607

Dickens's classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814359

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814090

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814564

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814403

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814663

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781910619926

SCI-FI / HORROR"Towards the end of the nineteenth century, several newspapers in England carried a small account of the discovery of a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, originating on the planet Mars and moving with enormous speed toward the Earth. The news item, however, was so insignificant, that I, as well as the rest of the world ignored what proved to be one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race..."

H. G. WellsPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814014

Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238591

Dr Victor Frankenstein's life's work is to re-animate

the recently deceased, however when he finally achieves his goal, things do not quite work in the

way he had hoped…

Mary ShelleyPaperback|48pp|£5.99

9781906814311

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OOD

TALE

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Robert Louis StevensonPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814595

Jules VernePaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814151

Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238249


Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238263








VICT

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UGO

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814625

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781911238355

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814175

Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238256



Thomas HughesPaperback|48pp|£5.999781910619933

ADVENTURE / MYSTERYEdmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned for life without trial. After years of incarceration on the remote island prison of the Château d'If, he learns of a vast treasure on the island of Monte Cristo and becomes determined to escape in order to retrieve the treasure and use it for vengeance against the men who betrayed him.

Alexandre DumasPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814656

In The Gold Bug, three men search for the infamous

Captain Kidd’s vast hidden treasure using a mysterious golden beetle to navigate

the way!

In The Tell-Tale Heart, a man is driven to the brink

of insanity, racked with guilt after murdering his

innocent landlord.

In The Cask of Amontillado, a man exacts a terrible

revenge upon another who has taunted him for years…

Edgar Allan PoePaperback|48pp|£5.99

9781906814731

Despite the wishes of his parents, Robinson Crusoe is determined to devote himself to a life at sea. Luck, however is not with him in his various voyages - en route to Africa, his ship is wrecked, leaving him marooned on an uninhabited island, with no way to return to civilisation...

Daniel DefoePaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814700

The adventures of Robin Hood, the great

outlaw, and the Sheriff of Nottingham who hunts him. Based largely on Howard Pyle's "Merry

Adventures of Robin Hood".

Howard PylePaperback|48pp|£5.99

9781906814052

Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238614

John BuchanPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814717



Howard PylePaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814250


Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238621

Nordhoff & HallPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814212

Herman MelvillePaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814373

Walter ScottPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814557

Rudyard KiplingPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814199

Émile ZolaPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238447


Walter ScottPaperback|48pp|£5.999781910619988


Anthony HopePaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238492



BIOGRAPHIESAn illustrated biography

of the life of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth

President of the United States of America.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781910619957

The story of the great heroine of France, Joan of Arc, also known as “The Maid of Orléans”. Born a peasant girl in Domrémy, France in 1412, during the Hundred Years’ War, Joan began to hear celestial voices as a teenager. It was these voices which she claimed guided her in battle against the English, until her capture and fateful trial for heresy.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781911238331

ALE

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UMAS

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814076

Hardback|52pp|£9.999781911238621

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814656

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Anna SewellPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814496

Charlotte BrontëPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814274

Emily BrontëPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814236

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Edward Bulwer-LyttonPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814540

Lew WallacePaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814533

H. Rider HaggardPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814724

Classics Illustrated biographies tell the life stories of some of the world's most fascinating people ever to have lived.

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781911238348

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781910619971

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781911238317

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781910619964

John BakelessPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238324

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781911238386

Paperback|48pp|£5.999781906814519

TALES FROM THEAMERICAN FRONTIER

SPECIAL ISSUESWORLD WAR HISTORIES

TALES FROM THE BIBLE

The thrilling story of “The Great War”. Classics Illustrated traces the history of this devastating conflict from the catalytic political assassination that started it to its end - with victory for some, shame for others and whole nations left in ruin!

Paperback|100pp|£9.999781906814786

The astonishing and horrifying story of the Second World War. Classics Illustrated traces the chronology of the most costly war in human history from its outbreak to its conclusion, with over 60 million dead, trials for crimes against humanity and a new, terrifying threat over the world: the atomic bomb!

Paperback|100pp|£9.999781906814793

James Fenimore CooperPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814601

James Fenimore CooperPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238379

Francis ParkmanPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238362

Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPaperback|48pp|£5.999781911238393

Walter Van Tilburg ClarkPaperback|48pp|£5.999781906814694

A retelling of the story of Moses and the exodus of the Jews from Egypt.

Paperback|100pp|£9.999781911238416

A retelling of the story of the life of Jesus Christ.

Paperback|100pp|£9.999781911238409

CLASSICS ILLUSTRATEDMODERN HARDBACKS

Classics Illustrated Modern Hardbacks feature a re-designed cover treatment which gives the series an updated, 21st century look and feel and distinguishes them from the Replica editions. The internal contents are the same.

Replica edition Modern Hardback edition

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9781911238133 9781911238089

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SCI-FI / HORROR

9781911238171

H. G. Wells9781910619681

Jules Verne9781910619766

H. G. Wells9781911238010

H. G. Wells9781911238126


Robert Louis Stevenson9781910619780

THE WAR OF THE WORLDSH. G. Wells9781910619674

Wells’s science fiction of the Martian invasion, told through the eyes of an ordinary man.


H. G. Wells9781910619742

FRANKENSTEINMary Shelley

9781910619711

Mary Shelley’s gothic horror of Dr Victor

Frankenstein and his Monster.

ADVENTURE / MYSTERY

John Buchan9781910619865

Daniel Defoe9781910619803

Alexandre Dumas9781910619827

Howard Pyle9781910619834


Mark Twain9781910619872

A STUDY IN SCARLET: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERYArthur Conan Doyle9781910619698

Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes mystery.


Edward Bulwer Lytton9781910619902

ROBIN HOODHoward Pyle

9781910619759

Adventures of Robin Hood, the great outlaw.

Rudyard Kipling9781910619841



Sir Walter Scott9781911238201

Herman Melville9781910619889


THE GOLD BUG AND OTHER STORIESEdgar Allan Poe9781911238065

Includes three chilling Poe tales: “The Gold Bug”; “The Tell-Tale Heart”; and “The Cask of Amontillado”.

James Fenimore Cooper9781911238003

Sir Walter Scott9781911238218

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Lewis Carroll9781910619810

Lewis Carroll’s tale of Alice and her adventures

down the rabbit hole.

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