'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody’s assistance.’ In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsene Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise –...
‘It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity...
During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen’s breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary,...
‘Waking, I cry “Oh, is this your – buried treasure? The light in the heart.”’In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday...
London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's...
‘Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before’After five years of 'strange amnesia',...
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know, it was too subtle and...
May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter...
The Time Machine is the great, gleeful anarchist novel of the 1890s. It is both a thrilling adventure story and a satire on religion, evolution...
‘Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it...
On the fields of Troy, war is raging. At its centre is Achilles: godlike, swift-footed, the greatest champion of the Greeks. But when his pride...
His journey through the East began in 1271--when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His...
Tristessa is a strange fever-dream of morphine sickness and belly-deep sadness. Or, in the words of Allen Ginsberg: ‘a narrative meditation studying a hen, a...
‘Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’From intimate musings on his...
Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago,...
Bleak House&,nbsp,is Dickens's most enigmatic and masterly novel, a savage, blackly comic indictment of a legal system that devours the innocent and a society that...
'Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs, making such a graceful bow, in reply to which I dropped a curtsey - all...
'What can I do? ... I must get up in the morning and do what every one else does. It is all like a dance...
'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money'Son of a bankrupt...
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious...
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