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'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.'

These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred...

A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on...

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated...

Warhol... , Hackett...

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused...

Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from...

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a...

The autobiography of an American icon

'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'

Andy Warhol -...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...

This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of...

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

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

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are...

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an...

George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the...

A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh...

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...

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

'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...

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

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

Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back...

In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.

'I lived alone in this cottage...

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual...

The Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of...

Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of...

A magical and acclaimed history, bringing back to life the lost realms of Europe, now in trade paperback

We habitually think...

From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire...