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Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He...

'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding... Not now. Not...

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an...

The last novel written by Haggard; finished just before his death and published posthumously.
Ramose is the offspring of an...

Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set mostly in Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary...

An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale...

An adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great...

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to...

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic...

This de luxe collector’s edition features the first edition text and eight full-colour plates, together with an exclusive colour...

The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann

Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of...

Philip Hensher’s selection of stories reflects the ‘desperate modernity’ of Berlin as it make and remakes itself over a period of...

'Poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.' - Samuel...

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

'Julio Cortazar is...

'She tried to laugh, but was sobbing at the same time. She attempted to stand up and fell over, but she didn't shatter like the...

It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote...

Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set...

It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will...

A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and...

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. One of his notable works is the novel "Beyond". Together with...

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "Beyond the...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,...

T. Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American financier, loves every cent of his twenty million dollars. Lady Vera Mace loves T....

Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire - but that doesn't stop him wanting...

Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful...

In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking point. Driven mad by constant press attention in the wake of the publication of On the...

A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip...

When Bill West of New York falls in love with the statuesque Alice Coker, his promise to look after her dissipated brother Judson...

Herman Melville (1819 — 1891) was an American poet and novelist of the American Renaissance, best known for his allusive...