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The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary

'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the...

Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving...

Mann's short stories explore his abiding interest in the split nature of humanity and the discordance of the world it inhabits....

Nancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of...

Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in...

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like...

One of the greatest and most overlooked novels of the twentieth century, by an author championed by Nobel Prize winner Orhan...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and...

For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were...

The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to...

Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet...

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from...

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances',...

A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly...

'Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are...

A romantic and comic gem from a precocious Victorian nine-year-old that has charmed readers for a century

The Young Visiters...

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his...

Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The...

Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a...

Depicting the daily struggle of the individual against a tyrannical dictatorship, We the Living shows the terrible impact of a...

In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by...

Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a...

Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront....

The Radetsky March is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the...

The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused...

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon, and a second reputation after...

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions...

Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Lucie...

In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...