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Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke...

Jean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Bertha Rochester.

Born into the oppressive,...

Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.

The Playbook is an expose of the...

The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the village...

Cornwall, 1940.

In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks.

Was it a tragic...

In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...

Taken...

CCTV footage captures Cate and Aiden Gascoigne driving home seconds before their car plunges into a ravine and explodes.

When...

If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry. So she...

On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years...

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after...

Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six...

About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her...

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and...

'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town...

Rainy night on Union Square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead.
Allen Ginsberg, August 8, 1990, 3:30 A.M.

Allen...

William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.

'What...

Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John...

In Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard's infamous and controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant...

Set against a Southern Californian backdrop, the stories are rich with suspense, violence and tragedy, and each comes laced with...

'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence...

Kenny Mancuso shot his childhood buddy Moogey Bues and then jumped bail. Now bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the case to track...

Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition....

One of the masterpieces of classical literature, The Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states...

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of...

In this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker,...

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth...

From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and...