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'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of...

The Haunted Life is the coming-of-age story of Peter Martin, a college track star determined to idle away what he knows will be...

Nobel-prize winner Francois Mauriac's masterpiece is Therese Desqueyroux, the story of a complex woman trapped by provincial...

These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well-known tales, 'Babette's...

'There they stood, bumbling into lines with a bit of difficulty: Mother Finland's chosen sacrifice to world history'

Unknown...

The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Liege, book ten in the new...

'Let's be clear that it's not your professionalism which I question. If you understand nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing,...

It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone had...

'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in...

'She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the...

The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda...

What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have...

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty...

A searing, unflinchingly realist novel about life at war, written during the First World War

'Men are made to be husbands,...

Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three...

The second book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of...

A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming in nineteenth-century Spain
One of the...

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin

In these stories,...

The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.

Not...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and...

A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor...

A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane.

Charming,...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation

Very...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the...

A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in...

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny

'There had been a moment...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Silas Marner by George Eliot

"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her,...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

'That black figure, with its eyes of fire,...