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Lamb... , Лэмб Мэри

As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began...

He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed...

'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The...

Wren was never afraid of the dark. Until she learned that some monsters are real . . .

In deep Louisiana, a serial killer with...

'Happiness - was it right to name it without knowing it? It sounded shameless in my mouth, like when someone shows off about...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Cafe Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time.
But when the...

Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years.

Turned out her mother was a really good liar.

After five years...

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an...

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an...

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton....

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the...

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

First...

The new Penguin Freud, under Adam Phillips' general editorship, offers a fantastic opportunity to see Freud in a fresh...

A man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer

When a man's headless body is discovered...

'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a...

A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a...

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret...

'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes,...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.

The...

It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, the...

The last thing anyone needs right now is to worry about the cost of cooking their dinner. And with air fryers proven to be...

Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim...

'Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same . . .'

The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be...

Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft.

When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,...