Into the insular town of 1930s Ferrara, a new doctor arrives. Fadigati is hopeful and modern, and more than anything wants to fit...

'It struggled to keep itself aloft, to gain height. But then it suddenly gave up, and dropped as though it were breaking into...

'It was useless to think I'd ever be able to throw open the door behind which I was yet again hiding... Not now. Not...

A new translation of Giorgio Bassani's haunting collection of short stories that evoke 1930s Ferrara, with an introduction by Ali...

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an...

'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it...

A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome...

Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of...

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

Revealing the breadth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's gift for the short story form, this Penguin Classics edition of The Case of...

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century...

From the bard of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Maggie Cassidy is an autobiographical novel of young love, published in...

In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by...

Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from...

Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs...

A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals...

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical...

Warhol... , Hackett...

A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused...

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also...

From one of twentieth-century China's greatest writers and the author of Lust, Caution, this is an unforgettable story of a love...

Setting off in his hometown, and ending up 'almost at the end of the world', Paul Theroux's The Old Patagonian Express is a...

Updike's seventh novel concerns a month of seven days, a month of enforced rest and recreation as experienced by the Reverend Tom...

When a history professor - Alfred Clayton, the hero of John Updike's fifteenth novel - is asked to record his impressions of the...

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl,...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short...

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a...

Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and...

The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.