Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are famous for their comic talents and numerous television and film appearances. Throughout the 1980s and 90s, they made a wonderful pairing as...
Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which imagination, experience, and remembrance intertwine. The somb...
Harold Pinter has long been acknowledged as one of the most influential playwrights in contemporary theatre; his arresting and original works have left a lasting imprint o...
‘I should like to go to France,’ said Ma.
‘God Almighty,’ Pop said. ‘What for?’
‘For a holiday of course,’ Ma said. ‘I think it would do us all good to get some sun....
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the boy foundling adopted by a family of wolves, Shere Khan the tiger, Bagheera the black panther and Baloo the sleepy brown bear.
H...
The short stories of Saki give brief but dazzling glimpses into the lives of the Edwardian rich: a class that virtually disappeared with the advent of the First World War....
“‘Of course,’ said Orfieu, ‘the sort of time-travelling you read about in books—time-travelling in the body—is absolutely impossible.’”
So begins The Dark Tower, a capt...
Three Thomas Wolfe Masterpieces
This volume contains the three major novels written by Thomas Clayton Wolfe, one of the most important American novelist of the early 20...
The story of a wealthy, fiftyish American widow, recently a famous stage beauty, but now "drifting." The novel opens soon after her husband's death and her retirement from...
Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling ...
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankin...
'SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earli...
Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Hide and Seek is the story about the girl named Mary - they called her Madonna, and she was dea...
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Parson's Pleasure, a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail. Read by the act...
The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed th...
Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment: Tucholsky’s publisher...
M. R. James was a prolific and hugely successful author, now credited with having redefined the ghost story for the 20th century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic cl...
The Temptation of Harringay, written by renowned English author H. G. Wells, is a work that centers around the titular character and his moral quandary. The protagonist fa...
