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The poems of Emily Jane Brontл are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural...

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?

Meet Sam
She's not got much, but she's grateful for what she...

'Vanity, not love, has been my folly'

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him...

Freud... , Breuer...

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time...

'Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget for the rest of my life.'

In 2020, an...

Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a...

In Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new...

Central Europe is not just a space on a map but also a region of shared experience - of mutual borrowings, impositions and...

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...

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

Inside lies a secret that won't stay hidden…
The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by discovering...

The Devil's Workshop is the third historical thriller in Alex Grecian's acclaimed Scotland Yard Murder Squad series.

April,...

As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of...

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city...

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The...

The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and...

When Celeste loses her best friend Hannah, she'll do anything to keep her spirit alive.

So when she uncovers her friend's old...

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'

Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet...

'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler...

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to...

The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology.

This...

The Last Four Things is the second in Paul Hoffman's remarkable series.

Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell
These are the Last...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive...

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'

James Baldwin's breakthrough...

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid...