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Jane Austen sets social snobbery against summer picnics; social rejection against the passion of real love. Her warm portrait of the relationship between two very different sisters contrasts her pr...
Cruelly seduced by her relative, the cynical Alec D’Urberville, betrayed by the moral Angel Clare and haunted by her guilt and shame, Tess becomes Hardy’s indictment of all the crimes a...
A troubled childhood strengthens Jane Eyre’s natural independence and spirit – which prove necessary when she becomes governess at Thornfield Hall. When she finds love with Rochester, t...
Pip’s sister makes it clear that her orphaned brother is nothing but a burden on her. But suddenly things begin to change for Pip. An anonymous person gives him money. Are these events as ran...
‘Pride and Prejudice’ is one of the best loved and most intimately known of Jane Austen’s novels. Her sense of comedy and satire makes this an enduring classic of English literatu...
John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’ changed the way people thought about art and art criticism.
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Set in India, ‘Siddhartha’ is the story of a young Brahmin’s search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism,...
This is a one-volume collection of Dickens’ most popular Christmas stories and articles. It includes ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Haunted Man’ and a few short items from ...
‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction. Robin Buss’s lively English translation rem...
This classic, begun as a novel concerned with the psychology of a crime and the process of guilt, surpasses itself to take on the tragic force of myth.
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In ‘The Canterbury Tales’, Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. This version ...
Homer’s epic tells of the adventures of Odysseus, the mythological King of Ithaca and leader of the Trojan war, recounting the hero’s wanderings and his eventual regaining of his kingdo...
At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff – recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the de...
One of the great epics of western literature, ‘The Iliad’ recounts the story of the Trojan wars. This timeless poem vivdly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods battling amidst...
King is the wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a male clothing emporium. Ruddy with health and self-satisfaction, he is repugnant to his cold queen, his wife Martha. She is warmed by his fortune,...
Keep The Aspidistra Flying is set in London in 1934. The novel tells the story of a copywriter who embarks on a new career, with disastrous consequences. His disaffection with middle-class respecta...
This is Jean Rhys’ powerful and compassionate story of the first Mrs Rochester, haunted by her brother’s death and the madness of her mother, she is trapped in a marriage with a man who...
Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war...
In this novel, as in ‘Decline and Fall’, the bright young things of Mayfair exercise their inventive minds and ‘vile bodies’ in every kind of capricious escapade.
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Agent Al Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has a horrific murder to solve – and precious few clues. Capote’s reconstruction of the slaughter of an entire family shows a grippi...
Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin’s novel is Tish, nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, ...