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'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...

'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler...

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid...

Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile....

'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'

Richard...

The Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent...

The first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential...

'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a...

Thomas Hardy's novel of swift passion and slow courtship is imbued with evocative descriptions of rural life, and with...

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.

'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on...

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel,...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

Four of Ibsen's most important plays in superb modern translations, part of the new Penguin Ibsen series.

In these four...

Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money - and a relentless psychopath is on their trail...

Harry 'Preacher'...

The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent...

'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'

And so the Larkins - Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose,...

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...

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "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...

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

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...