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The Magic Mountain is simply one of the greatest novels ever written." - The Guardian With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps - a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First Worl...

Emily's one novel, Wuthering Heights, is a thunderstorm.' - The AtlanticWuthering Heights has achieved an almost mythical status. It is a unique masterpiece of the imagination: an unsettling, transgressive novel about obsession, violence and death. Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written. "May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then"Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte's d...

Voltaire's philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years - and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at th...

It is doubtful whether any novel has been more important to America's female writers than Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, the story of the four March sisters living in genteel poverty in Massachusetts in the eighteen-sixties.Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Following the lives of the four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - the novel d...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's astounding book is full of intense symbolism and as haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe' - The Guardian'The Scarlet Letter is a tragic love story, but it's also a story about resistance and transformation. When I reread The Scarlet Letter I discovered a far more radical book. I hadn't noticed that the word "patriarchy" runs through the novel … along with a scathing depiction of patriarchs in the opening chapter. The l...

Heart of Darkness has lost none of its power to amaze and appall: it remains, in many places, an essential starting point for discussions of modernism, imperialism, the hypocrisies and glories of the West, and the ambiguities of 'civilization.'"-The New Yorker

Thomas More's Utopia is astonishingly radical stuff." - The Guardian Five hundred years since its first publication, Thomas More's Utopia remains astonishingly radical and provocative. More imagines an island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and property is communal. In a text hovering between fantasy, satire, blueprint and game, More explores the theories and realities behind war, political co...

The world's bleakest romantic comedy' - Los Angeles Times"An exuberant, extravagant chronicle of gestation which romps through to the final production of the Fante's firstborn in high Italianate style and immerses a succession of hair-raising to breast-beating sequences in tears - and Chianti."-Kirkus"The universe of John Fante's fiction is so immediately moving, so poetically vivid, that it is hard to decide which is the greater quandary: tha...

Victor Hugo gave Notre Dame life as the vibrant heart of France." - The GuardianThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris, 'Our Lady of Paris' in French) is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1831."It is not just Hugo's intensely visual imagination that makes Notre Dame so vibrant. He made [a] successful model of historical fiction more lyrical and more philosophical in order to thicken and heighten his writing's d...

Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - a sentence filled with irony and playfulness. "The most beloved novel in the language" - The New YorkerPride and Prejudice is an 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen. It charts the emotional ...