Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only interested in money. Then, on the night of Chris...
Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they investigate the myster...
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Di...
Charles Dickens’s satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836–37. It recounts the rolli...
According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ignorantly assume--it means "artisan" or "artist."
We fol...
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley's seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has ever matched the power and phi...
Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal un...
Роман-сенсация, ставший абсолютным мировым бестселлером, покоривший миллионы женских сердец и положенный в основу одного из самых красивых и романтичных фильмов Голливуда!...
'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts'
The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a mom...
Features the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the li...
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuade...
Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.
INTRODUCED BY MARGARET ATWOOD
Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, ...
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..."
Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county's showpiece. Rebecca made it so - ev...
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won H...
‘Atonement is a masterpiece’ The Times
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia plunge naked into the fountain ...
In Thomas Hardy’s first major literary success, independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest esta...
Культовый роман, который входит в сотню самых читаемых по версии «Таймс». Вышел в шестидесятых, в яркое время протеста нового поколения против алчности, обезличивания, вой...
Блистательный и загадочный роман Патрика Зюскинда был впервые напечатан в Швейцарии в 1985 году. Сегодня он признан самым знаменитым романом, написанным на немецком языке ...
Little Women is one of the best loved books of all time. Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy: these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New Engla...
"Имя розы" - книга с загадкой. В начале ХIV века, вскоре после того, как Данте сочинил "Божественную комедию", в сердце Европы, в бенедиктинском монастыре обнаруживаются у...