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

Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to...

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...

When the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of...

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...

Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth...

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...

New writing from the literary master

Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never...

This novella, one of the most haunting things that Joseph Roth ever composed, was published in 1939, the year the author died....

Set during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta...

‘Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely...

The Emperor’s Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the...

As I stepped over one of the Germans an impulse made me lift him up from the miserable ditch. Propped against the bank, his blond...

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a...

George Sherston develops from a shy and awkward child, through shiftless adolescence, to an officer just beginning to understand...

Siegfried Sassoon is one of the First World War poets whose poetry has defined a generation. He published most of his war poetry...

Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, is the story of Hazel Motes who, released from the armed services, returns to the...

Katherine Lind is a refugee who has become a librarian in a wartime Northern town. One winter's day, she receives: and her...

Rediscover a lost American classic: Sleepless Nights, a kaleidoscopic scrapbook of one woman's memories, here reissued with a new...