The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronolog
This edition of "Hard Times" includes an introduction by Philip Collins. It tells the tragic story of Louisa, starved of the graces of the imagination so essential to emotional well-being, and trapped
After a lonely boyhood, and the painful ordeal of his schooldays, Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to
An unknown benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves
David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. This title is set in the Paris of t
Offers an mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, this book includes choice titbits from famous novels: the triumphant boeuf en daube served in Virginia Woolf's To the Li
"Open this book with reverence. It is a hymn to England - the old England, the England of beach huts and Constable skies." (Clive Aslet). This beautiful book acts both as a touchstone for people's mem
From the end of the last Ice Age (10,000 years ago) to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, Adrian Sykes narrates the history and achievements of these islands,their inhabitants and their origins,t
Rosemary Shrager is mostly self taught, she has worked for Pierre Koffmann and Jean-Christophe Novelli. Now, in more than a hundred recipes, she shows us how to produce the very greatest cuisine at ho
The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, and the only las
A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle it is the
