Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern...

Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial...

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy...

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where...

The unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although...

The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...

A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh...

Fictionalising his experience of service during the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour is the complete one-volume...

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish...

Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of...

The second volume of Waugh's masterful trilogy, Sword of Honour

Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing...

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a...

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be...

'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to...

A brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love, from the author of Wide Sargasso...

Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris

Set in a...

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he...

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his...

Borges' first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun....

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' Mario Vargas Llosa The Book of Sand was the last of Borges' major collections to...

Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with...

He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story

A semi-autobiographical novel from the...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition...

Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold...

Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels...

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then...

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English...