Features a collection of songs and simple stories that were founded on three principles: introspection, nature worship and the cult of ordinary experience.
His disreputable career encompasses bookmaking and dog-training, fight-management and insurance broking. Plagued by bad debts, bad luck and the formidable Aunt Julia, Ukridge remains as resourceful an
Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has good health, a large income and an enviable ancestral home. But these blessings count for nothing in the presence of Sir Gregory Parsloe, whom Emsworth suspects o
For Bertie Wooster's old friend has fallen in love with Madeline Bassett and, as usual, makes a hash of the affair until Jeeves comes to the rescue. In the meantime, Jeeves must also solve the mystery
An autobiographical volume covering Nabokov's first 40 years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War II, telling of his emergence as a writer, his early loves and his ma
The single most important book in the history of all Christian literature is presented here in the Authorized Version which has exerted such a profound influence on both spiritual life and the literar
The story of Lily Dale, the last of the Barsetshire novels and illustrating the psychology of love, is one of Trollope's gentlest and least satirical novels but also shows his characteristic understan
Originally published in 1902, a novel which takes passionate love as its central theme and focuses on a young woman with a terminal illness whose last gesture will serve either as a deed of selflessne
The painter and architect Giorgio Vasari was a pupil of Michelangelo's who worked mainly in Florence and Rome, but he is more famous for his "Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects". This is
Containing Shakespeare's four Last Plays - The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter's Tale and Cymbeline, this single-column text of the plays features Signet footnotes, is supplemented with bibliographies,
This edition of the King James Bible of 1611 is designed for the general reader, uncluttered by footnotes and set in full pages rather than the usual narrow columns. The introduction aims to show this
This, the author's first novel, tells the story of a spoilt child in search of happiness. Wealthy, pampered and brilliant at school, Amory Blaine looks for the love of others, but finds only himself.
Edith Wharton's subtle variation on the theme of the eternal triangle features Anna Leath, a rich American widow living in France; her daughter's governess, Sophy Viner; and the first love of Anna's y
This collection of some of Jane Austen's early stories and later fragments reveals a writer with a talent for broad comedy and even farce on occasion. The mature stories are featured in the first part
Contains Shakespeare's later Comedies - The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As you Like it, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure.
This is a collection of some of the greatest love letters of all time, from 200 of the world's most articulate lovers. Love letters both historic and fictional, tragic and comic; love letters written
Contains pieces that are taken from all religious and traditions with the purpose of providing material for prayer and meditation. In this book, each section gathers poems and prose according to theme
The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through th
An entirely new edition of Herbert's collected poems with nots, chronology and introduction by the distinguised scholar Anne Pasternak Slater, this volume is designed to complement the editions of Mar
The humour of the shop and the pilgrimage counterbalance the tragic and sentimental story of Little Nell. This is the story is rich in Dickensian characters.
There are many anthologies of love poems but friendship has proved a more elusive theme. Yet it is no less important. This selection draws on the literature of many periods and languages to illuminate
The story of a half-caste boy, part-Indian and part-Irish, who journeys throughout the subcontinent with an aged llama in search of religious enlightenment. Considered Kipling's masterpiece, the plot
This work contains "First Love" and "A Fire At Sea", translated by Isiah Berlin, and "Spring Torrents" translated by Leonard Schapiro. These stories record the pains and glories of youthful infatuatio
The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing HENRY IV, parts I and II, HENRY V and HENRY VIII. As before, there is an extended introduction by Tony
First published as a serial in YOUNG FOLKS between May and July 1886 and now reprinted in an Everyman edition on the centenary of Stevenson's death. KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the
The story of Robin Hood, said Roger Lancelyn Green can never die, nor cease to fire the imagination. Like the old fairy tales it must be told and told again, for it is touched with enchantment. Placin
This volume contains Shakespeare's first five history plays - "Henry VI", Parts I, II and III, "Richard III" and "King John". The text of the plays is accompanied by extensive notes, an author chronol
FRAMLEY PARSONAGE continues the Barchester series of novels in which Trollope explores the social, political and domestic life revolving around a mid-nineteenth-century cathedral town. Popular since i
A short novel based on Tolstoy's early life as a soldier in the Caucusus. It has the energy and poetry of youth while at the same time foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy's later years. Tolstoy
A collection of the lyric verse, narrative verse and letters of John Keats. This volume contains a selection of sonnets and other short poems, both versions of "Hyperion", extensive sections from "End
A collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, songs from plays and celebrated soliloquies from "Hamlet", "Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear", Henry V" and "The Merchant of Venice". In addition, substantial extra
Intended to follow on from and complement "Love Poems" - also part of the "Everyman's Pocket Poets" series - this book contains a selection of erotic verse. The emphasis is on the tender, sensuous, wi
A series with silk-ribbon markers and headbands, gold stamping on front and spine, and the original colour illustrations on the jackets. This fantasy with a strong moral overtone was first published i
It has often been said that love, both sacred and profane, is the only true subject of the lyric poem. Nothing better justifies this claim than the splendid poems in this volume, which range from the
A series with silk-ribbon markers and headbands, gold stamping on front and spine, and the original colour illustrations on the jackets. First published in 1919, this version of the story of the Sleep
In this third novel of the Barsetshire series, Trollope continues his study of a small cathedral city and the surrounding rural community which he presents as a microcosm of 19th-century England. "Doc
Contains Rousseau's "The Social Contract" and three discourses in which he discusses the nature of liberty, human rights and the state; the origins of private property; the function of education; the
With this novel about the anguish of loving, and society's brutal treatment of those who transgress its codes, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize.
