Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women...
Tragický milostný příběh dvou velikánů světových dějin, římského vojevůdce a egyptské královny, pojal Shakespeare jako komorní drama cizoložné lásky v kulisách velkého světa. Stárnoucí milenci,...
Tragikomická groteska na téma lásky a války. Osudy legendárních reků trójské války nahlíží autor skeptickým pohledem člověka, který pod maskou přikrášlené historie nachází holou, nelichotivou...
Set during the turmoil of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities follows two men, French aristocrat Charles Darnay, and disillusioned English lawyer, Sydney...
'A masterpiece ... the greatest novel of the Holocaust' The Guardian A haunting, dreamlike portrayal of the encroaching horror of the Holocaust onto a genteel...
One of Thailand’s best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman ‘In that tranquil...
'Astonishingly beautiful... The best gay novel written by anyone of our generation' Harpers'A life changing read for me. Describes a New York that has completely...
'Delany's works have become essential to the history of science fiction' New YorkerSamuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers...
This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man. Lea de Lonval is a magnificent and aging...
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and...
The first complete English-language edition of Calvino's early short story collection. These early short stories brim with the beauty of the Italian countryside and seaside,...
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone...
Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written. Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels, brought up on a...
'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts...
Parties and Passions is a literary celebration. Love, betrayal, sadness, humour, boredom and more are explored in this collection of party stories by classic authors....
'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times",There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream...
Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War, many writers went on to settle in Paris, Berlin and elsewhere and...
Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien...
'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and...
'Held me completely in its thrall until the very last line’ SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, bestselling author of Pandora ‘A well-researched and thoroughly convincing page-turner’ LAURA SHEPPERSON,...
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