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In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old...
How well do you know the life of one of Britain's great maritime heroes?
Discover the truth behind a man who remains a...
Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and...
The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the popular...
A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers...
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of...
Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month...
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...
These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to...
Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the...
Horse Stories corrals two centuries of short fiction about the most majestic of domesticated animals. From writers old and new...
Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary...
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence...
If every fiction is at heart a mystery, then the detective story is fiction distilled to its purest essence, combining the...
These eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage...
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first...
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the...
During his most productive decade, the 1880s, Maupassant wrote more than 300 stories, including ‘Boule de Suif’, ‘The Necklace’,...
'America was never innocent.'
Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his...
In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a...
When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made...
Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of...
In this remarkable trilogy, Richard Ford creates one of the most enduring and empathetic characters in contemporary American...
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite...
A classic musical comedy plot turned into a novel, The Prince and Betty is the story of a man who gives up everything for his...
In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring...
Despite an enormous solo output, P. G. Wodehouse often co-operated with other writers, especially in the early stages of his...
This early novel, written in collaboration with a friend, is a fascinating curiosity which suggests that Wodehouse might have...
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