In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises thi
Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious adventures.
Includes three novels: "The Bookshop," about a bookstore owner bothered by hostile townsfolk, "The Gates of Angels," an Edwardian romance, and "The Blue Flower," about the fictionalized relationship b
Featuring the lovelorn laments of Dante and Petrarch to the artful heights of Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare, this anthology displays the incredible range and power of the verse form that has inspire
As an operative for Pinkerton's Detective Agency the author knew about sleuthing from the inside, but his career was cut short by the ruin of his health in World War I. Taking detective fiction out of
Newly married to novelist Rosie M. Banks, Bingo bucks the current trend by being extremely happy, although he does tend to lose his shirt on various horses. This collection of wonderfully funny storie
Celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, this book set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of I
Features a collection of songs and simple stories that were founded on three principles: introspection, nature worship and the cult of ordinary experience.
Weaves together two stories, one about Gwendolen Harleth, the spoilt beauty who marries for money, the other concerning the mysterious hero of the title whose search for his true destiny leads him tow
Set in mid 19th-century Russia, this book examines the effect of a charismatic but unscrupulous self-styled revolutionary leader on a group of credulous followers.
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
Includes more than one hundred of memorable poems from the poets of all times. The poets have encompassed the entire spectrum of feeling - pride, compassion, courage anger fear excitement, anguish, ev
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
This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan and Korea includes the work of practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travellers and recluses and covers fifte
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
Covering all aspects of human relationships, from passionate first love to fianl regret, this title includes poems by Shakespere, Donne, Dickinson, Lowell. Larkin, Herbet, Horace, Hardy, Rilke, Auden
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
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
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
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
In a book which put South America on the map, Marquez tells the story of a community lost in the depths of that mighty continent where time passes slowly. The book's magic realism is its distinguishin
Each of the 21 chapters in this autobiography takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, science and personal record, history and ane
The concluding episode in Trollope's sequence of six Barsetshire novels narrates the trials of Josiah Crawley, the obsessive rector of Hogglestock, as he struggles to clear his name from accusations o
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
This boxed set of Volumes 4-6 ("The Eastern Empire") completes the Everyman set. Volumes 1-3 ("The Western Empire") were published in 1993. Even after 200 years, Gibbon's book is still an authoritativ
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
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
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
A satire on the manners of late 19th-century America. This is the story of the beautiful but brutally ambitious Undine Spragg who marries her way into the the high aristocracy of Europe, abandoning se
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
