Жанр "Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке"

A woman takes a holiday in the Austrian mountains, spending a few days with her cousin and his wife in their hunting lodge. When...

'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'

While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate...

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpiece

Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote...

Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature.

'If we had a keen...

'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka

Michael...

'Don't show proper feelin', does it, not turnin' up for 'is dad's funeral?'

Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both...

The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex

When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is...

Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley

A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A...

'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times

"There's no such thing as a perfect murder......

Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda,...

Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. But staying with...

When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts...

‘Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days’

Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most...

‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’

Could...

'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets...

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

'Julio Cortazar is...

‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George Steiner

After an embarrassing sexual misadventure...

A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein

Includes A Cultural History of Frankenstein's...

Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the...

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century...

'In this holy community she would play the witch.'

Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls, a utopia for those who can...

Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination.

Mann's...

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an...

One hundred and fifty years ago, at the request of her publisher, Louisa May Alcott sat down reluctantly to write 'a girls'...

Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur's fear and...

A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country...

'Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are...

Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Lucie...

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a...

Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte.

When Agnes's father loses the...