‘Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.’Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artist...
A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century'In the town they tell the story of the great pearl - how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. ...
California’s fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and ...
THE PEARL is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transf...
"When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least be sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man's wrist is a hospital ban...
'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of...
Albinus - rich, married middle-aged and respectable - is an art critic and aspiring filmmaker who lusts after the coquettish young cinema usherette Margot. Gradually he seduces her and convinces hi...
When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.This annotated edition, a revis...
Wielki finał bestsellerowej serii o miłości, przyjaźni i nienawiści Lata 30. XX wieku. Nad Związkiem Radzieckim wschodzi gwiazda Czerwonego Cara. Stalin skupia wokół siebie coraz więks...
Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, through his fame in the aftermath of the publication of Lolita to the final, fascinat...
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on ca...
Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new wo...
'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition'Sophie HannahIt's always darkest before the light comes. In t...
Przełom XV i XVI wieku. Przez Półwysep Apeniński przetaczają się wojny o Królestwo Neapolu i Księstwo Mediolanu. Izabela Aragońska, pozbawiona Księstwa Mediolanu przez Ludwika S...
Historia Barbary Giżanki, pięknej mieszczki, która miała być jedynie narzędziem w rękach ambitnego rodu Mniszchów, a stała się ostatnią miłością króla Zygmunta Augusta.Je...
A man at his desk is interrupted by the appearance of a woodland elf in his room; the piano maestro Bachmann ends his career; a barber shaves the face of a man who once tortured him; a shy dreamer ...
Jest rok 1924. Beztroskie życie Catriony Keys zmienia się niespodziewanie po śmierci ojca, magnata przemysłu okrętowego. Stanley Keys, budowniczy i właściciel "Arcadii", najbardziej luksu...
Świat Ellie Faulkner legł w gruzach. Jej mąż Greg zginął w wypadku samochodowym, a na siedzeniu pasażera znaleziono ciało Mileny Livingstone, kobiety, o której Ellie nigdy nie słyszała. Nie ...