Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

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

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

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

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

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

Taking its title from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land, Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's...

Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as...

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...

Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a...

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'
Biting and timeless...

'We are mistaken when we say that 'It isn't the same for them as it would be for us', and that people bred in the slums can...