Is it possible to die a happy death?This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel, published posthumously and...

June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the...

Perhaps the funniest travel book ever written, Remote People begins with a vivid account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari...

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from...

The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new...

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey,...

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are...

Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man's struggle for identity, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of...

If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing. Written after her return from Kenya and during the dark...

A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more...

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of...

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its...

It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference, where they will learn if...

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans...

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and...

Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees...

George Orwell's paean to the end of an idyllic era in British history, Coming Up for Air is a poignant account of one man's...

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...

Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the...

In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's...

While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a...

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

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an...

'The only four things that interested me were: reading books, going to the movies, tap-dancing and drawing pictures. Then one day...

George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the...

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...