With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisiti...
One of the great classics of western literature, Les Misérables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description.Characters s...
Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout, has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmast...
Mr Hemingway, applying that quick eye and wrist of his to the rings of the boxer and bull-fighter, achieves some unforgettable reporting of the world in which blood is argument... The author's exce...
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you for ever ...Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entre...
A hilarious and refreshingly honest foray into modern dating, AGE, SEX, LOCATION is Bridget Jones's Diary for HBO's Girls generation.Based on a true story, the author blogged about her love life an...
Hope do osiemnastego roku życia wychowywała się w klasztorze. Świat za murem stanowił dla niej fascynującą i pełną pokus niewiadomą. Gdy opuszcza klasztorny azyl, przechodzi przyspieszony kurs dojr...
Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts,...
Tallie Jones has it all. She's professionally at her peak as a famous film director, and with a loving live-in boyfriend and a well-adjusted teen daughter, she couldn't be happier. But Tallie's wor...
"Moby-Dick" is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. B...
Tallie Jones has it all. She's professionally at her peak as a famous film director, and with a loving live-in boyfriend and a well-adjusted teen daughter, she couldn't be happier. But Tallie's wor...
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of prov...
Rowan Tripp has been fighting the annual forest fires in the Montana mountains since she was eighteen years old. But now she is mourning the death of her good friend and jump partner, Jim - and hau...
Rowan Tripp has been fighting the annual forest fires in the Montana mountains since she was eighteen years old. But now she is mourning the death of her good friend and jump partner, Jim - and hau...
Germinal (1885) is the thirteenth in Émile Zola's cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of Étienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branc...
When The Forsyte Saga was shown on television in 1967 it was hugely successful. The nation was gripped by the masterful visual telling of the Forsyte family's troubled story and adapted its activit...
"Moby-Dick" is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. B...
Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has rarely failed to cause a storm. For Flaubert's contemporaries, the fascination came from the novelist's meticulous account of prov...
A summer's evening in Amsterdam and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite...
'40,000 francs, which lay before him in a heap of gold and banknotes.'Written in twenty-six days to pay off Dostoyevsky's own roulette debts, The Gambler is a graphic psychological stud...