Jimmy Pitt, man-about-town and former newspaper hound, takes a bet that he cannot commit burglary. He finds breaking and entering easy enough, but then discovers that he has forced his way into the ho
Sir Buckstone Abbot owns what is possibly the ugliest stately home in England, and he is naturally eager to dispose of it to an American heiress, Princess Dwornitzchek. But the sale is complicated by
When Kay gets a splinter of the wicked troll's magic mirror in his heart it becomes hard and cold - just like a lump of ice. Kay is abducted and bewitched by the chillingly beautiful Snow Queen and hi
Threepwood family includes, the head of the clan, Lord Emsworth, his virago sister, Lady Constance, and his debonair brother, the Honourable Galahad Threepwood, ex-boulevardier and solver of romantic
Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that situation when he goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court. So
Prince Myshkin, the last, poverty-stricken member of a once great family and regarded by many as an idiot, returns to Russia from a sanatorium in Switzerland in order to collect an inheritance.
Features short stories and novellas that reflect every aspect of author's developing art and outlook. This book is dominated by the characteristic experiences of his early life as soldier, land-owner,
Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. This collection includes classics old and new, from Homer a
A Hollywood star and an English aristocrat exchange souls while under ether at the dentist and the result is mayhem. Though his golden curls and sweet expression make him the idol of mothers throughou
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
The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and England's aristocrats are all diving for cover, not least Galahad's formidable sister Lady Constance Keeble who fears that her br
Gussie Fink-Nottle simply must marry Madeline Bassett or Bertrand Wooster will be obliged to proffer the ring in his stead. In a daring attempt at securing the engagement, Jeeves and Bertie visit a ru
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.
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
