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Lamb... , Лэмб Мэри

As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began...

He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed...

'Sullenly, he got dressed. Why, whenever he was woken on a winter night like this, did the coffee have a particular taste? The...

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an...

Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character', Hardy's powerful study of the heroic but deeply flawed Michael Henchard is an...

As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age,...

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the...

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

First...

A man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer

When a man's headless body is discovered...

'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a...

A parable on Darwinian theory, and a biting social satire, H.G. Wells's science fiction classic The Island of Dr Moreau is a...

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret...

'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes,...

It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, the...

'Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same . . .'

The note from Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson cannot be...

With three plays focusing on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them, Henrik Ibsen's...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers,...

In the summer of 1820, Keats published this collection, his third and final volume of poetry. A few months earlier, he had...

Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins...

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces.

'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ......

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become...

In their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above...

These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel -...

A story of war in all its absurdity and horror, this incomparable novel describes the fortunes of a young boy travelling through...

Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's...

Hyosok Yi, Manshik...

This eclectic, moving and richly enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature.

Journeying through...

Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels....

Sawyer W.... , Evans Gwyn

Spies, private eyes and dangerous women

Every hero has allies; men and women of great ability and character, drawn into their...

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.'

Arguably Shakespeare's greatest...