His journey through the East began in 1271--when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His...
Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a...
‘I must die. But must I die bawling?’What does it mean to live a virtuous life? How can we rise above pain and anguish? In...
Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago,...
Bleak House&,nbsp,is Dickens's most enigmatic and masterly novel, a savage, blackly comic indictment of a legal system that devours the innocent and a society that...
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all...
'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance...
'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money'Son of a bankrupt...
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious...
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Every Species is a Masterpiece brings together some of Edward O. Wilson's...
'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my...
'Kissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?'...
'As you got older, ... you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish,...
Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction,...
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want...
'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Is any writer as closely associated with...
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new...
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of...
'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'In a fit of...
As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother...
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