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Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and...

First English translation of Pirandello’s first published work, originally published in Italian in 1894

In ‘The Wave’, a young...

Dickens... , Halliday...

Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of...

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the...

Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and...

Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As...

In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life...

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was...

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the...

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and...

Celine’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British...

Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the...

In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his...

Compiled and published after Fitzgerald’s death by his friend, the prominent critic and editor Edmund Wilson, The Crack-Up is a...

Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand...

Contains the original 1928 illustrations, notes and an updated extra material.
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen...

When the ambitious but inept clerk Frans Laarmans is offered a job managing an Edam distribution company in Antwerp, he jumps at...

When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...

Having frittered away his family’s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of...

Эта книга представляет собой облеченные в художественную форму воспоминания о детстве шотландского писателя Кеннета Грэма,...

This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich,...

Nine intriguing tales.

One unequalled storyteller.

An unknown wounded man in a church. A fatal riding accident. A corpse...

Jason Taverner is a Six, the result of top secret government experiments forty years before which produced a handful of...

Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave...

Collins... , Southey...

Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its...