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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...

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...

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...

Certain details of the case were etched more sharply than others in Maigret's memory. Even years later he could recall the...

'Maigret had questioned thousands, tens of thousands of people in the course of his career, some occupying important positions,...

Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But...

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.

'That shoeless foot...

'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack...

'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they...

'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly...

Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has...

'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads...

'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward ... Built...

When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to...

'He had seldom been so perplexed by human beings. Would a psychiatrist, a teacher or a novelist...have been better placed to...

Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is...

'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of...

'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was...

'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the...