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Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure." - John WatersFlagrantly controversial on its first publication in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire by Denton Welch (1915-48). Against the backdrop of an English country hotel in a languid pre-war summer, Denton Welch's alter ego, Orvil Pym, examines his early life and formative experiences wit...

Certainly the writer who most directly influenced my work." - William S. Burroughs A Voice Through A Cloud is Denton Welch's unfinished masterpiece.Welch, one of the most gifted creative artists of his generation, died in 1948 at the age of thirty-one, leaving this, perhaps his finest work, almost but not quite completed. Under the thin disguise of fiction Welch recreates the world of hospitals and nursing homes in which he spent so many month...

The forgotten feminist classic about a civilisation without men ... deeply, viscerally empowering.' - The GuardianIn 1915, Charlotte Perkins Gilman - a feminist, futurist, and activist - published Herland, a story about an all-women utopian society hidden in a jungle. They shared all labor and child care equally and reproduced without men. For generations, they lived peacefully, communally, and happily-until three men barged in, disrupting the...

The Frankfurt School knew Trump was coming" - The New YorkerMax Horkheimer, founder and long-time director of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, was professor emeritus of philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt until his death in 1973. He is one of the founders of the Frankfurt School. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much curre...

On a starry night, Peter Pan and his fairy friend Tinker Bell fly with the three Darling children to Neverland, a magical place filled with mermaids, magic, and mischief... One starry night, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell lead the three Darling children over the rooftops of London and away to Neverland - the island where lost boys play, mermaids splash and fairies make mischief. But a villainous-looking gang of pirates lurk in the docks, led by the...

Surprisingly radical.' - The Atlantic 'A miniaturist of the soul, Brontë captured shades of emotion with a psychological subtlety that still feels exquisitely modern.' - The New York TimesPassionate, poetic and revolutionary, Jane Eyre is a novel of naked emotional power. Its story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman who refuses to accept her appointed place in society - and instead finds love on her own terms - has become famous as one o...

What begins as an alluring fable ends as a full-on modernist nightmare.' - The New YorkerFirst published in 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only novel. At first the subject of intense controversy, it has endured as a classic for years.Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remai...

The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age.Considered one of the all-time great American works of fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the "Jazz Age".After the war, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth, riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic determination. He buys a mansion across from her hou...

A collection of the most famous cases faced by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's peerless creation, Sherlock Holmes.Venture back in time to the foggy, mysterious backdrops of London and the English countryside, to join literature's greatest detective team - the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson - as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. This classic collection includes many of the famous cases - and great str...

Brilliant and penetrating ... the most important work which has opened up an understanding of Marx's humanism." - Erich FrommReason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory is the philosopher Herbert Marcuse's first major work in English - a masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on European political thought from the French Revolution to the present day.Reason & Revolution, written in 1941, was ...

A touching autobiographical novel of adolescent love in a New England mill town, Maggie Cassidy is a remarkable, bittersweet evocation of the awkwardness and the joy of growing up in America. "Each book by Jack Kerouac in unique, a telepathic diamond … Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half xx-century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonious Monk, Basho, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic...

An underground classic. Tristessa is a portrait of a young prostitute destroying herself in the squalid drug underworld of Mexico City. Here, in the characteristic voice of Kerouac at the height of his dazzling descriptive powers, emerge the major themes of his eclectic religious romanticism. One of the final works in Kerouac's 13-book Proustian memoir and a quintessential classic in the Kerouac Canon."Kerouac is a writer of exquisitely sad lo...

Stefan Zweig's brilliant novel, Beware of Pity, is an original and powerful work."-The New York TimesThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. In 1913, Hofmill...

The best single work of science fiction yet written' - Ursula K. LeGuin Written in 1921 and banned in its native Russia until 1988, We is a uniquely prophetic dystopian satire, fearlessly excoriating the very concept of censorship and predicting the rise of a future police state. In the far-future city of OneState, happiness has been reduced to a simple equation: remove freedom and choice, and create contentment for all. In a city of straight ...

The Yellow Wallpaper has lost none of its power to chill the blood. It is the archetypal feminist horror story, the account of a young woman suffering "temporary nervous depression" who is treated by her grotesquely self-assured physician husband … Stifled, isolated and forbidden any sort of activity, her illness curdles into full-blown madness.' - The GuardianCharlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American humanist, novelist, writer of shor...

First published in 1921, Crome Yellow was Aldous Huxley's much-acclaimed debut novel.On vacation from school, Denis goes to stay at Crome, an English country house inhabitated by several of Huxley's most outlandish characters-from Mr. Barbecue-Smith, who writes 1, 500 publishable words an hour by "getting in touch" with his "subconscious, " to Henry Wimbush, who is obsessed with writing the definitive History of Crome. Denis's stay proves to b...

Breathtaking … unlike anything I have ever read before" - The GuardianThe Burning Secret is a darkly compelling coming-of-age story - a tale of seduction, jealousy and betrayal from the master of the novella, Stefan Zweig.A suave baron, bored on holiday, takes a fancy to twelve-year-old Edgar's mother, while the three are holidaying in an Austrian mountain resort. His initial advances rejected, the baron befriends Edgar in order to get closer ...

Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written - an essential summary of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Beyond Good and Evil...

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Each book by Jack Kerouac in unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his mind, he reveals consciousness itself in all its syntactic elaboration, detailing the luminous emptiness of his own paranoiac confusion. Such rich natural writing is nonpareil in later half xx-century, a synthesis of Proust, Céline, Thomas Wolfe, Hemingway, Genet, Thelonious Monk, Bash, Charlie Parker, and Kerouac's own athletic sacred insight. Big S...