This hardback gift edition presents Franz Kafka's celebrated novella, Metamorphosis, featuring a silver embossed cover design, patterned endpapers and gilded page edges. A...
Features Dorothea Brooke, Dr Lydgate, spendthrift Fred Vincy, and steadfast Mary Garth. This book explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern...
The US government and big business teamed up to build dams and bridges across the American West. A band of individuals teamed up to prevent...
Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading. On...
Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book...
Is life worth living? If human existence holds no significance, what can keep us from suicide? In this book, the author argues if there is...
Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar?Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. 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...
'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it is not a very pretty story'James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made...
On Happiness contains the Greek philosopher's teachings about life and death, religion and science, happiness, friendship and morality. His views were influential on later scientists...
'A beautiful book' Ursula K. Le GuinThis mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri...
Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when...
'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across...
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes...
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentWith its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its...
A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, ",The Prince", shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its...
This haunting 20th century classic is perfect for the teenage market. Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and Frenchman's Creek are now available for the first time in...
From America's top writer of hardboiled crime, the novel that became Tarantino's hit film JACKIE BROWNJackie, a flight attendant with a serious side hustle, is...
A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpieceLate one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by...
A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil....