It is your turn to say something now, Mr Darcy.- I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.
In this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World, Charles Clover chronicles how determined individuals are proving that the crisis in our ...
For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development...
A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty yearsWe are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative la...
The Sisterhood collection: Independent. Irrepressible. Unforgettable.A stunning boxset of inspiring books from the very best female writers. The Sisterhood collection was published to m...
Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have graffitied their name on its hallowed outer walls. Others might even have managed to penetrate the iron gates. But what ...
Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only one language....
A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its ...
Feminism is the insight that sexism exists, and the struggle against that oppression. The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is a global anthology of feminist writers, edited and introduced with a ma...
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracyIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of h...
Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat; he has seen how individuals and organizations, too often and to great cost, fail to mitigate r...
Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of 'Oulipo' writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and conundrums.F...
Set in Hardy's fictional realm of Wessex, these four charming novels have been brought together in a stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the moving a...
Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Fr...
„Władca Pierścieni” - tłumaczenie Maria Skibniewska Niełatwo powiedzieć, na czym polega tajemnica uroku wywieranego przez „Władcę Pierścieni”. Miał niewątpliwie rację C.S Le...
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed moder...
Niełatwo powiedzieć, na czym polega tajemnica uroku wywieranego przez „Władcę Pierścieni”. Miał niewątpliwie rację C.S Lewis, pisząc: „Dla nas, żyjących w paskudnym, zmaterializow...