Books that changed the world

Vintage Classics offers published writers such as Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Vaginia Woolf and Franz Kafka. These illustrious names are now joined by the greatest writers from previous centuries including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde. Vintage aims to publish the best writers of today, tomorrow and yesterday.

There are ten Vintage Classic Twins to collect. Each Twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. These books have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination

• VINTAGE CRIME
• VINTAGE FANTASY
• VINTAGE FEAR
• VINTAGE LIES
• VINTAGE LOVE
• VINTAGE LUST
• VINTAGE MONSTERS
• VINTAGE SATIRE
• VINTAGE SIN
• VINTAGE YOUTH

Our first weekly feature of vintage classics will look at the Vintage Twin...

Vintage Crime
Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's Game
Tom Riply detested murder. Unless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he prefered someone to do the dirty work. In this case someone with no criminal record, who had an unusual but pressing reason to agree to commit 'two simple murders' for a very generous fee...
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller, and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption