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Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners. In the stories collected here, she captu...
Tired of the bustling city, a man takes the train through the snow to Japan’s mountains, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, she is tightly bound by the rules ...
Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She’s up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She...
Two elderly sisters living in a remote, God-fearing Norwegian community take in the mysterious French refugee Babette as a maid when she appears on their doorstep one night. When Babette wins the l...
Olenin, a wealthy, orphaned, ‘superfluous man’ from Moscow joins the Russian army and travels to the Causasus – Russia’s equivalent of America’s Wild West. There, he d...
The last of Kavan’s books to be published in her lifetime, ‘Ice’ is a dreamy novel set in an imaginary world padded by ice and snow, run by a secret government, invaded by aggress...
Emerging from their smoke-filled rooms at 21B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson grapple with the forces of crime that stalk the streets of London. From the first story, ‘A Scandal in Bohemia...
It is Chicago in the 1950s and Manfred Banks has the Dirty Bird Blues. A musician and a blue-collar worker, he feels hard the tug of his two responsibilities: those to his wife and child, and those...
In these seven stories of the people from Bloomington, our peculiar narrators find themselves in the most peculiar of circumstances and encounter the most peculiar of people. Set in Bloomington, In...
Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled in a quiet street by St Paul’s Cathedral in London, where, far from their native Peking, they struggle to navigate the bustling pavements...
Sadegh Hedayat’s most famous work is a deeply haunting and disturbing gem of world literature, a classic tale in which the reader is drawn into his hallucinatory and pained world, with recurr...
Recently widowed, the unscrupulous and beautiful Lady Susan Vernon is determined to scheme her way through high society in the hope of a profitable new match – all while trying to marry off h...
Arguably America’s most influential short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe’s tales of suspense never fail to spook and amaze. Gathered in this selection are his very best horror stories, i...
Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as Carson McCullers. This volume contains seven stories, begin...
Fair, elegant, and ambitious, Clare is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene, just as light-ski...
In ‘The Turn of the Screw’, one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. ...
‘The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection’ presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influenc...
‘The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection’ presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influenc...
‘The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection’ presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influenc...
How does a painter see the world? Philip Guston, one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment. Touching on work from across...
Kingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or mali...
When a number of scientists mysteriously disappear in Berlin, what seems to be a straightforward case rapidly becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy. It is a conspiracy that...
The text of Ulysses is loosely based upon the Odyssey and deals with events that occurred one day in Dublin in 1904, the anniversary of Joyce’s walk with Nora Barnacle.
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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian wo...
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cun...