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...
'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century.' - Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.Set in London during the aftermath of the...
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...
Murder, stolen plans, a mysterious death and a menage a trois - four intriguing novellas featuring Hercule Poirot......
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...
Step into a world of enchantment with this captivating collection of Norse fairy and folk tales, beautifully presented in a handsome hardback edition with gilded...
Notes from the Underground is a dystopian tale of the Underground Man, a retired civil servant living in St Petersburg who retreats from society. This...
'That sense of the meaninglessness of existence that runs through much of twentieth-century writing - from Conrad and Kafka, to Beckett and beyond - starts...
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...
With a foreword by Malorie Blackman, author of the Noughts &,amp, Crosses series and Chasing the Stars.‘Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content.’Rediscover Shakespeare’s tale of...
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...
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of...
‘One of the masters of the short story’ Guardian‘I have to tell you – you see, this is just about the strangest experience I have...
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...