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The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a...

In The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot recreates her own childhood through the story of the wild, gifted Maggie Tulliver and her...

Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale of life above and below...

'What a mad thing to go and do. Jolly sporting, though.'

Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or...

Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best...

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century...

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a...

Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He...

Henry Bech, the celebrated author of Travel Light, has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the...

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair, a summer celebration at...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of...

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious...

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be...

Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously...

Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a...

Follow the thrilling and exciting adventures of Horatio Hornblower's life at sea in the Royal Navy, in these three classic...

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe

In this masterly synthesis, Arthur...

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese...

Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A Sentimental...

Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and...

Eduard and Charlotte are an aristocratic couple who live a harmonious but idle life in their estate. But the peace of their...

One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological...

Elizabeth Gaskell's only historical novel, Sylvia's Lovers, is set in 1790 in the seaside town of Monkshaven (Whitby) where...

'Sets out the London of the 1830s before you, streets, people, pleasures, low life, prisons' Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens's...

A vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of...

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife...

These three brilliant novels span Henry Green's career as a novelist and display his unique talents as a writer. Nothing is a...

Henry Green, whom W. H. Auden called 'the finest living English novelist', is the most neglected writer of the last century and...

'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings. There are pages here that one wants to embrace her...