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
Larger than life - like his massive works - Berlioz was a seminal figure in the Romantic movement. This book is both a personal testament and an account of his role in that movement. It tells the stor
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,
With 13 children of his own clamouring for bedtime stories it isn't surprising that author George MacDonald discovered he had a gift for composing fairy tales. But these were fairy tales with a differ
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
Closely linked to the Arthurian legends - King Arthur himself appears in one of the stories - they summon up a world of mystery and magic which is still evoked by the landscape so vividly described in
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
What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper relationship between human beings and their environment?
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
Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. If This is a Man describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spent working in Auschwitz. The Truce
The story of Jack, the intrepid little boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants several times his size, is an English folk-tale that must have been told often in the Victo
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary talents found expression in literature, drama, autobiography, politics and the sciences.
Originally produced to bolster the Tudor secession from Catholicism, the Pray Book rapidly took on a life of its own. It invaded the style of 17th-century poets and even 19th century novelists like Ge
Eugene Onegin is not merely the greatest poem in the Russian language by its most influential poet: it is a global cultural, social and political icon of the highest order. The historical power of thi
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
Begun as a parody of Richardson's moralistic and sentimental novel "Pamela", Joseph Andrews grew under Fielding's hand into a satirical fiction in its own right. In the story, the virtuous hero is ove
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
Presents a study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This book includes a detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty.
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
