Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find...

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel...

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...

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as...

The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a miniature masterpiece,...

This study of natural goodness is Dostoevsky's most touching novel. Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once...

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...

Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system, Solzhenitsyn's classic portrayal of life in the gulag...

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

The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a...

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...

Kipling's masterpiece is perhaps the most remarkable literary product of British India. The story of a half-caste boy, part...

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 Custom of the Country is probably Edith Wharton's most savage satire on the manners of late nineteenth-century America. It is...

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...

In the third novel of the Barsetshire series, Trollope continues his study of a small cathedral city and the surrounding rural...

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...

An attack on war which broadens into a satire on the Ancien Regime of the Austro-Hungarian empire, The Good Soldier Svejk...

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