A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works żeby the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written aby the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
Leo Tolstoy's earliest published work, the trilogy Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth, was written when he was in his twenties, offering a tantalizing first glimpse of the literary talents that...
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel is in many ways his most intriguing. A highly atmospheric tale of murder, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" foreshadows both the detective stories...
How do you define yourself when others have already decided who you are? Six years ago, when Camden Daniels came back from war without his younger brother, no one in the small town of Alba,...
The unfettered exuberance of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel, ' the storms of phenomenal life it offers for our inspection, the honor it gives to the deformed, the cloacal, and the profane...
it considers the life-cycle of the oak, the flora and fauna that depend on the oak, the oak as medicine, food and drink, where Britain's mightiest oaks can be found, and it tells of oak stories...
Ronan O'Gara has been at the heart of Munster and Irish rugby for the past fifteen years. Now, as he comes to the end of a glittering playing career, it is time for him to reflect on those many...
Terry Pratchett in his own words - a collection of essays and other non fiction żeby the creator of Discworld, about his life, interests, campaigns, and his writing career from early years to the...
The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in his memoirs. But Casanova was not just an...
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign...
Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim...
This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold and a tortured soul.' From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead....
First published in 1941, "No Bed for Bacon" is a comic classic. Out of print since 1985, but much-discussed in the press following the release of the Oscar-showered film Shakespeare in...
Book 5 of "The Malloreon", the worldwide bestselling fantasy series by one of the godfathers of the tradition. Discover the epic stories that inspired generations of fantasy writers - from...
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian...
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers...
Fourth supernatural romance featuring vampire Georgina Kincaid - a combination of }Buffy{ and }Sex & The City{. Still in a foul mood over splitting up with Seth, Georgina is sent to Vancouver,...
The chilling classic ghost stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. It includes stories aby such legendary writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, P.F....
And then the inevitable panic started to set in...'Having been told żeby doctors that, due to Izzy's polycystic ovarian syndrome, they would have difficulty conceiving - and after two years...
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace...
These poems, selected from most of the cultures and histories of world literature, provide magnificent witness to the fact that love is as much an act of the imagination as it is of the body. From...
'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful...
BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution unlike any other, and its story during the Second World War is also our story.