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At first glance, Nora Helmer appears to live the perfect life. She is married to the ambitious banker Torvald and is well...

First published in 1879, A Doll's House rewrote the rules of drama. Henrik Ibsen's biographer, Halvdan Koht, wrote that the play...

'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's...

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

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to...

In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...

One of Hemingway’s finest novels, A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929 when the author was at the height of his powers. It...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded...

Sonia Riccardi, impetuous and sensual, is a woman no man could resist. And Larry Astell, heir to a champagne fortune, knows their...

Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave...

Want to know how to lose a golf tournament, a good job or a Fat Uncles sweepstake? Destroy the wrong Old Master painting in the...

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and literary critic, one of the key writers of the...

'Ramon had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramon, his Catholic soul trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramon and...

When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a...

Intelligent and haunting, with echoes of Brief Encounter, this is a love story by one of the best British writers of the 20th...

In this comic novel - dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks, who starred in the stage version - Jimmy Pitt, man-about-town and former...

Grimm... , Hoffmann...

Eine frohliche Weihnachten - A Merry Christmas - made all the more joyful with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit...

Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One winter’s day, she receives a telegram: and...

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good-looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her sober...

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. "A Group Of Noble Dames" is great short story collection, which...

Evelyn Waugh's celebrated tale of decadence and social disintegration, now in a beautiful hardback edition with a new...

Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's...

'It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.'
After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored...

Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and...

'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass'

Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's...

'A quite extraordinary and unforgettable book' Ralph Straus

On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is...

In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes...

"Гранатовый домик" - сборник рассказов Оскара Уайльда, в котором также представлены рассказы "Молодой король", "День рождения...

The Great Plague swept through London in 1665, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year Defoe vividly...