Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto Sabato's...

Irving... , Лахири...

The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its...

Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call...

In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their...

In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John...

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why...

Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make...

The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie...

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable...

In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled...

Inspired by his own eccentric aunt, Patrick Dennis's Auntie Mame is a madcap comedy, published with an afterword by Matteo...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.

Increasingly disillusioned by the...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.

Their eyes 'met and tangled. For an...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.

Between the First World War and the...

When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory...

The Sea is My Brother is Jack Kerouac's very first novel, begun shortly after his tour as a merchant sailor in 1942. Lost during...

The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in...

Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it...

Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a...

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar Wilde uses his decadent ideology in an attempt to reverse and therefore reject his audiences'...

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend...

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from...

The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman...

Encompassing the very best of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction, this collection spans his career, from the early stories of...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love...

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains...

Diogenes, Julian

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics

From their founding in the fifth century...

A young working class woman abandoned by her bourgeois lover, the tensions of intermarriage between established classes and...