‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be...
Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the...
Lay down all hope, you that go in by me . . .Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of...
Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who...
‘Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman’s sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries – sleep and fishing.’Through tender,...
My dreadful situation forced me … to try splitting myself into a Black self and a White self, to keep from being crushed by the...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when,Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was...
Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, Journey by Moonlight is here presented in a brilliant new translation by Peter V. Czipott....
No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories – many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected...
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.'Is lying...
Written in the same period as&,nbsp,Mrs Dalloway&,nbsp,these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the excitement, the fluctuations of mood...
When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But then again, he has never been able to...
'Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days'Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of...
“All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by...
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings… First there was the mystery of the film star and...
An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will… Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’In...
The bones were still warm, but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own deadThis spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases...
It’s terribly important that I get in touch with a gentleman who may have stopped in here to buy flowers this morning. Terribly important. Sometimes,...
Muriel Spark claimed The Driver’s Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise – heading for the holiday...
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