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An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows...

Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy...

Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the harsh...

The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against...

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Leon Delmont begins to mull over his past and...

The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and...

Unsuccessful in his endeavours, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow...

Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry...

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the...

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

Liv Bloom’s life is even more complicated than that of your average fourteen-year-old: her father walked out on the family when...

In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life...

Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But...

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was...

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed,...

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the...

Celine’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band...

The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British...

Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn’t know that. He does know that he’s just moved to...

When Parker Banks moves with his family from London to New York, he struggles to adapt to his new school and environment. His...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his...

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...

Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his...

Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand...

Contains the original 1928 illustrations, notes and an updated extra material.
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen...

When the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at...