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

Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of...

Alone in the world, Eleanor is delighted to take up Dr Montague's invitation to spend a summer in the mysterious Hill House....

This is the definitive collection of Shirley Jackson's short stories, including 'The Lottery' - one of the most terrifying and...

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

Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the...

In these hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment and vengeance, extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A...

First published in 1949, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has lost none of the impact with which it first hit...

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

Shanghai, 1927, and revolution is in the air. As the city becomes caught up in violence and bloodshed, four people's lives are...

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...

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated...

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...

A powerful dystopian novel from a writer who experienced firsthand the dehumanising conditions of Soviet Russia, Ayn Rand's...

Rand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing – the mountains, the huge...

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...

Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's...

Part autobiography, part travelogue, and wholly a tribute to the unspoilt beauty of southern Spain, Gerald Brenan's South from...

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

The autobiography of an American icon

'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores'

Andy Warhol -...