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A tragicomic study of deception and disappointment, offering an insightful portrait of the experience of losing touch with reality. Svevo also wrote the classic "Zeno's Conscience".

With Sherlock Holmes's reputation as the scourge of the criminal underworld preceding him, the ingenious detective, with the aid of Dr Watson, is confronted in these stories by some of his most fi endishly diffi cult cases yet. The collection culminates in 'The Final Problem', in which the evil Professor Moriarty is plotting the detective's downfall. Soon Holmes and Watson are led across Europe in a deadly pursuit of their devilish quarry, unt...

The classic evocation of childhood and adolescence, with Eliot mining her own rural upbringing and introducing one of literature's great heroines in Maggie Tulliver.

Hannah Karalis, a teenager living with her family in 1980s Notting Hill, becomes fascinated by her neighbour, Flora Dobbs, an enigmatic elderly woman who has clearly had an interesting past - but the improbable friendship that the two strike up is abruptly cut short by Flora's sudden departure from the neighbourhood. Eighteen years later, Hannah is astonished to receive a black notebook, which sets her on a quest to discover the truth and to c...

Originally conceived as a public lecture, "Eureka" is considered the culmination of Poe's work, offering an extensive treatise on creation, existence and the possible nature of the end of the world through comedy, wordplay and prose poetry.

Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends - Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal histories coalesce into a poetic tapestry of human experience. A commercial and critical success when it was fi rst published in 1931, and now co...

William Wordsworth's verse was the embodiment of the Romantic age, with its evocation of a unifying spirit running through all things. This collection brings together a rich and diverse selection of his works, from the epic autobiographical masterpiece The Prelude to much-loved shorter poems such as 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' and 'She Was a Phantom of Delight'. Alongside his more personal and introspective compositions, poems such as 'Line...

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Ten-Year Anniversary Edition - newly revised and updatedRussia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - a man who ...

Riotous and erudite, natural-born raconteur Zebra narrates this story of where her sense of inquiry regarding her family's emigration from Iran to the life she has known in New York comes to take her. Imaginative vignettes and unconventional musings bring a refreshing sense of difference to this anticipated novel.

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This edition contains articles, a musical commentary and a full libretto in dual language.

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In 1864, Lewis Carroll sent Alice's Adventures Under Ground, a handwritten and illustrated manuscript, as a gift to Alice Liddell, the daughter of his Oxford dean. This formed the basis for Carroll's Alice in Wonderland - introducing timeless characters such as Alice, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts and the Gryphon - although it differs considerably from the later work, with the author himself approving its publication in 1886. Alice's A...

Despite the title, this is a book definitely NOT for children. Here are 21 adult short stories from one of Spain's most accomplished and brilliant writers. Robert Rahula delivers a dazzling collection of contemporary "portilla" short stories - that writing style that interweaves graphic sexual detail, existential philosophy, wry political commentary, and intricate dreamlike plots. A large talking bear waxes philosophical on the nature of evil ...

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The Russian literary forefather's much-overlooked short verse is brought to light here, collecting poems written during his marriage and until his untimely death in a duel, such as 'In An Album' and 'Worldweariness'.