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From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of...

Upper-class rogues, bohemians, dowagers, socialites, bureaucrats and delinquent evacuees prepare for England to change forever,...

'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to...

A brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love, from the author of Wide Sargasso...

Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest...

Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris

Set in a...

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he...

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his...

Borges' first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun....

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' Mario Vargas Llosa The Book of Sand was the last of Borges' major collections to...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work...

Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic...

He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story

A semi-autobiographical novel from the...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by...

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition...

Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and Stars is the lyrical...

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and...

Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting...

A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius...

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is...

Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels...

An extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including The Uncanny, Screen Memories and Family...

This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and...

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on The Town and the City Kerouac's debut novel is a great...

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge,...

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society,...