In a German Pension is a remarkable collection of short stories, displaying all Katherine Mansfield’s skill in the genre. Written shortly after the author visited Germany ...
This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare and poison gas, a married couple whose pacificism complels them to opt o...
Only rarely in publishing history has the ideal edition of a literary work been created, where text, typography, and illustrations complement one another perfectly. Among ...
Well, she was married to him. And what was more she loved him. Not the Stanley whom everyone saw, not the everyday one; but a timid, sensitive, innocent Stanley who knelt ...
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides.
Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He's helplessly ...
The most moving debut novel of the year, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Homestead is simply one of the most beautifully written and moving boo...
The Adventures of Captain Horn is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Frank Richard Stockton is in the English language, and m...
Sadegh Hedayat's most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale that defies any attempt to tie it down to a single interpreta...
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, final...
Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's w...
If the management of the Hotel Guelph, that London landmark, could have been present at three o'clock one afternoon in early January in the sitting-room of the suite which...
Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare loves her Connecticut hometown, where her mother grew up and her grandparents still live, and she likes visiting her grandparents even more no...
Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Be...
Published under a pseudonym in the weekly magazine Chums, The Luck Stone was written very early in Wodehouse's career when he was still trying to establish himself as a wr...
Wodehouse revisits favourite places and characters in this gentle late comedy of crossed wires, pining lovers and overbearing dowagers. In possession of a mansion but no m...
Excerpt from Modeste Mignon: And Other Stories
"Modeste Mignon" occupies a very peculiar place in Balzac's works - a place indeed, which, though for the form's sake more ...
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Way Up to Heaven by Roald Dahl, read by Stephanie Beacham.**
In The Way Up to Heaven, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story ab...
In this Victorian tale, a young woman recuperating at her aunt’s house in a Scottish town is spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs wind...
Элегантная Клэр Кендри с легкостью вращается в кругах высшего общества Нью-Йорка до того дня, когда она вновь знакомится со своей подругой детства Айрин. Клэр предпочитает...
In a German Pension is a remarkable collection of short stories, displaying all Katherine Mansfield’s skill in the genre. Written shortly after the author visited Germany ...
This is the world of universal future war. Faced with the threat of bombs, bacteriological warfare and poison gas, a married couple whose pacificism complels them to opt o...
Only rarely in publishing history has the ideal edition of a literary work been created, where text, typography, and illustrations complement one another perfectly. Among ...
Well, she was married to him. And what was more she loved him. Not the Stanley whom everyone saw, not the everyday one; but a timid, sensitive, innocent Stanley who knelt ...
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides.
Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance. He's helplessly ...
The most moving debut novel of the year, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.
Homestead is simply one of the most beautifully written and moving boo...
The Adventures of Captain Horn is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Frank Richard Stockton is in the English language, and m...
Sadegh Hedayat's most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale that defies any attempt to tie it down to a single interpreta...
Not yet famous for his Civil War masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane was unable to find a publisher for his brilliant Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, final...
Meet the Young Men in Spats - all members of the Drones Club, all crossed in love and all busy betting their sometimes nonexistent fortunes on unlikely outcomes - that's w...
If the management of the Hotel Guelph, that London landmark, could have been present at three o'clock one afternoon in early January in the sitting-room of the suite which...
Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare loves her Connecticut hometown, where her mother grew up and her grandparents still live, and she likes visiting her grandparents even more no...
Uprooted from a well-ordered life in Virginia when she was nine, Willa Cather came of age in the West during the last years of the American frontier. She developed a love ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Be...
Published under a pseudonym in the weekly magazine Chums, The Luck Stone was written very early in Wodehouse's career when he was still trying to establish himself as a wr...
Wodehouse revisits favourite places and characters in this gentle late comedy of crossed wires, pining lovers and overbearing dowagers. In possession of a mansion but no m...
Excerpt from Modeste Mignon: And Other Stories
"Modeste Mignon" occupies a very peculiar place in Balzac's works - a place indeed, which, though for the form's sake more ...
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Way Up to Heaven by Roald Dahl, read by Stephanie Beacham.**
In The Way Up to Heaven, Roald Dahl tells a sinister story ab...
In this Victorian tale, a young woman recuperating at her aunt’s house in a Scottish town is spending a good deal of time looking out at the world through an upstairs wind...
Элегантная Клэр Кендри с легкостью вращается в кругах высшего общества Нью-Йорка до того дня, когда она вновь знакомится со своей подругой детства Айрин. Клэр предпочитает...
