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Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical...

When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a...

Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right....

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated...

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at...

Kully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows...

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great...

Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty...

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of...

Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet...

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from...

Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, Fortress Besieged recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang...

Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an...

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the...

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its...

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and...

Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees...

Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern...

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where...

The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour

Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing...

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied...

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be...