Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young...

First published in 1877, these three stories are dominated by questions of doubt, love, loneliness and religious experience, and...

The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories 1896-1904 is an enchanting collection of tales which showcase Anton Chekhov at the...

Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. Texts that were written in Iceland...

Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading...

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an...

Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey is one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature,...

Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial today...

'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens's story of...

Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a...

As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is...

Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of...

An electrifying modern classic - Kneale's sweeping adventure story vividly brings a past age to life

In 1857 when Captain...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

The Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and...

English Food reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane...

'A reference bible... inspirational in the way that it opens up new possibilities for vegetables' - Daily Mail Jane Grigson's...

When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter...

A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a powerfully...

Every day, in every court and tribunal, advocates represent us all - Crown and defendant, landlord and tenant, rich and poor,...

The Quincunx is an epic Dickensian-like mystery novel set in 19th century England, and concerns the varying fortunes of young...

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...

Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters?
Who told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

Boll... , Aichinger...

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form...

The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby’s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In...

The perfect edition for any Orwell enthusiasts' collection, discover the classic dystopian masterpiece beautifully reimagined by...

A producer. A novelist. An actress.
It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert...

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal...

If it had happened to you, you would have run away too.
Twenty-five years ago, Paul's friend Charlie Crabtree brutally killed...