By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

An Indian clerk, Girija Krishnan, sees the opportunity of his lifetime when he stumbles on an abandoned cache of arms hidden in...

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The...

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the...

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to...

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'

At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery...

One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious,...

A silent comedy star whose legendary slapstick routines are recognisable to this day, Charles 'Charlie' Chaplin's My...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for...

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s...

A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs's final novel is poignant and...

A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final...

The iconic study of the Haitian revolution, by one of the most important historians of the twentieth century

C. L. R. James's...

'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'

James Baldwin's impassioned...

Freud... , Breuer...

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time...

Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a...

A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other...

'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma;...

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'

Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet...

The hilarious writing of James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty', collected in this classic anthology.

This...

'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'

James Baldwin's breakthrough...

This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest...

One of Hermann Hesse's greatest novels, Narcissus and Goldmund is an extraordinary recreation of the Middle Ages, contrasting the...

James Baldwin's electrifying first novel.

'I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on...

This volume brings together Freud's main contributions to the psychology of love. His illuminating discussions of the ways in...

This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of...