The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity's dangerous will to power....View more

Move over, 007: a stunning, sexy - and decidedly female - new player has entered the world of international espionage armed with her own pocket...View more

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University. Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern...View more

"Lowry's masterpiece...has a claim to being regarded as one of the ten most consequential works fo fiction produced in [the twentieth] century." — Los Angeles Times Geoffrey...View more

With an Introduction and Notes by Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan. These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one...View more

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER  Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long,...View more

Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man...View more

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of...View more

Written at the end of the 14th century, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in Middle English. Thirty...View more

When Helen Fielding first wrote Bridget Jones' Diary, charting the life of a 30-something singleton in London in the 1990s, she introduced readers to one of...View more

When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship...View more

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was internationally famous as the author of novels based on 'extraordinary voyages.' His visionary use of new travel technologies inspired his readers...View more