It is the autobiography of Giorgio Bassani, told in a time span of around 15 years, a time where the ambiguous and mysterious...

John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America's dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of America, a...

We begin - at the turn of the century, in an unnamed South American country - in the childhood home of the woman who will be the...

The new expanded Everyman edition of Pushkin's prose fiction contains all his mature work. In addition to 'The Captain's...

There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a...

Hardy described the theme of The Woodlanders as 'the immortal puzzle -given the man and woman, how to find a basis for their...

Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, written when the author was twenty-four, appeared in 1920 and immediately established him as a...

A dazzling collection of early stories and later fragments which throw an entirely new light on Jane Austen. In particular, they...

An extraordinary kind of autobiography in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and its starting-point from one of the...

In the comic masterpiece which established him one of the greatest writers in the English language, Naipaul follows the fortunes...

When young Charles Dickens was commissioned to write the text for a series of sporting illustrations in 1836, no one could have...

Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly original manner. When about to marry...

The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author's other...

The Radetsky March is subtle and touching study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the...

This volume contains two of the world's great love stories - First Love, and Spring Torrents, which show Turgenev at his very...

George Eliot's last novel, published in 1876, weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who...

This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several...

The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a...

A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, Animal Farm is perhaps the most...

D H Lawrence remarked that Hardy's best novels were about 'the struggle into love and the struggle with love', and The Major of...

The Tin Drum presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the...

Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters in his brief lifetime. The...

Set in the Malay Archipelago, where Conrad spent much of his youth as an officer in the British Merchant Navy, Victory is a...

When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his...

Albert Camus’ laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous for diagnosing a state of...

Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself...

The Scarlet Letter is the story of Hester Prynne, a woman taken in adultery, arraigned by her Puritan community, and abandoned by...

The Secret Agent is the unsurpassed original of a long series of twentieth-century novels and films which explore the confused...

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) made one reputation during his lifetime with his Utopian satire Erewhon, and a second reputation after...

In The Return of the Native Hardy once more treats his favourite theme of the mismatched couple with masterly pathos and...