Classics

‘I am Black because I come from the earth’s inside / now take my word for jewel in the open light.’ Impassioned and profound, the poems in Coal showcase Audre Lorde in all her dazzling elegance and multiplicity. Mournful,...

Musashino, 1959. A young Japanese flight attendant is found strangled on the icy banks of the river. The police suspect foul play – but the deeper they dig, the more they collide with a wall of silence. At the centre of it all stands a...

'That is my fear. That I stand between her and any moments of life that should be hers...'Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It tells the story of writer Richard Rowan and his common-law...

‘The undertow of unspoken feeling is tumultuous, and although hardly anything happens the action amounts to a fearful adventure’ New York TimesJames Joyce’s play Exiles follows the story of writer Richard Rowan, who,...

A bestseller in France, this is the first English translation of Albert Camus and Maria Casarès’ fascinating, impassioned letters - a record of one of the great love affairs of the twentieth centuryYou and I met and fell in love...

In city squares and golden palaces, a series of storytellers recount the history of the greatest Empire that never was: a history in which orphans rise from the underworld to the throne, mad emperors raze cities, captive dancers induce fatal...

Proust''s masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator''s experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often...

Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his...

Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.

Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.

Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.

PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. Joan Flower is long dead when she first appears to Samuel...

PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night. A group of travellers find themselves marooned in the Welsh...

PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.Like moths to a flame, people are drawn to Dower House. To see the...

PENGUIN HORROR: A celebration of the very best literary horror, a series of terrifying novels and tales that for generations have thrilled, captivated and kept readers wide awake at night.Known for writing some of the most incisive and elegant novels of...

A beautiful boxed set of seven Hardcover Classics by Jane Austen, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Love and Friendship.Few novelists have...

'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House, upstanding Victorian matriarch, has packed her...

Anthony C. Yu's translation of "The Journey to the West", initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, "The Journey to the West"...

Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey to...