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Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to...

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

Babel, Alan Burns’s fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define –...

Dreamerika!, Alan Burns’s fourth novel, first published in 1972, provides a satirical look at the Kennedy political dynasty,...

Fully annotated edition with over 300 notes.

In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged real-estate agent George F....

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his...

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald’s death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a...

When the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of...

In Thomas More’s hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy...

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...

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told...

Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around...

When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...

Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth...

Having frittered away his family’s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of...

Эта книга представляет собой облеченные в художественную форму воспоминания о детстве шотландского писателя Кеннета Грэма,...

The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a...

Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of...

Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was...

This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich,...

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group...

Nine intriguing tales.

One unequalled storyteller.

An unknown wounded man in a church. A fatal riding accident. A corpse...

Two trains.

Side by side for a brief moment.

In that moment, a murder.

Elspeth McGillicuddy is positive she witnessed a...

This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet, writer and religious...

A career-spanning collection, Tiny Love brings together for the first time the stories of Larry Brown's previous collections...

Lewis Nordan’s fiction invents its own world–always populated by madly heroic misfits. In Music of the Swamp, he focuses his...

Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous photographer, she and her brothers were the...

A young man is found brutally murdered in the middle of the snowed-in village of Wivenhoe. Over his body stands another man, axe...