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Almayer’s Folly, Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo i...
A Companion to the Cantos of Ezra Pound V 1
First time in Black Classics for Forster`s story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj. Featuring a new introduction by novelist Pankaj Mishra.
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical m...
As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. He claimed to have written the novel in six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. Faulkner wrot...
Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a ...
This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness....
"A majestic literary biography, a truly new, surprisingly fresh portrait. --
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
National Book Critics Circle Award ...
"Ulysses" is one of the greatest literary works in the English language. In his remarkable tour de force, Joyce catalogues one day - June 16, 1904 - in immense detail as L...
T. S. Eliot's playful cat poems have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were first published in 1939. They were originally composed for his ...
A collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, widely recognized as one of the greatest writers of her period, that capture with accuracy those emotionally-charged ...
One of Katherine Mansfield's most important works, Prelude established her reputation as a master of short fiction. It is accompanied here by its continuation pieces At th...
The story is about Miss Brill, a middle-aged English teacher in an unnamed French vacation town. It follows her on a regular Sunday afternoon in the park, which she spends...
The classic stories of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) continues to surprise and delight readers even today. In deceptively simple language, Mansfield illuminates complica...
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work.
Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to c...
The principal theme of this ambitious book is Time, threading together three generations of an upper-class English family, the Pargiters. The characters come and go, meet,...
The story of a man’s life from a day in his childhood to the day of his death. “Jacob’s Room...comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred. The style close...
The Voyage Out is an inward journey as much as it is an outward one. On a trip to South America on her father s ship, Rachel Vinrace is tossed onto a route of self-explora...