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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend...

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

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on The Town and the City Kerouac's debut novel is a great...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge,...

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden...

'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...