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Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah,...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional...

With a a stunning cover design inspired by the iconic fashion featured in the book, this beautiful hardback edition is a special...

'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'
The world and...

Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes...

'Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break'
It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of...

The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
'Why...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community

Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too...

'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'

Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a...

Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant...

This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary...

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan...

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of...

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction...

"You're always good on ideas, Tom..."

An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece he bought is a...

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming...

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.

'She...

The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the...

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving...

For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them— and poets have...

A new Penguin edition of Ibsen's two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about...

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted...