Melissa pragnie zostać uznaną literatką. Ceni sobie niezależność, przyjechała do Londynu nie po to, by szukać męża, lecz skupić się na pisaniu i znaleźć wydawcę. Jest zachwycona, gdy poznany na prz...
A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's NINETE...
Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived plots and surprise endings, his stories gl...
Writers have always been uniquely inspired by New York City, and the classic stories collected here provide a kaleidoscopic vision of the metropolis in all its grittiness and glamour. Acclaimed wr...
Nineteen Eighty-Four tells the story of Winston Smith, an ordinary man struggling against the overwhelming power of a totalitarian state. Although he enjoys brief moments of love and freedom, Smith...
Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their h...
His stories are fillled with the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corrupt...
There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a woman of 71 and a man of 78 ascend a gangplank and begin one of the...
An immaculate success on its publication in 1726, Gulliver’s Travels has since had an odd double life as both a classic traveller’s tale for children and a scathing satire of the human ...
Emma Woodhouse ‘had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’, but during the course of this, the wisest and most disturbing of Jane Austen&rsq...
Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged...
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolu...
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrato...
Jane Austen seems to have been born with the comic precision and other-worldly insight she everywhere displays in Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel (1811), which, though revised late...
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of ...
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of ...
Panny Wilkins, bogate Amerykanki, zostały wysłane do Anglii, by dobrze wyjść za mąż. Dwie odnalazły tu miłość, ale Violet zniechęca wszystkich zalotników. Jej pasją jest fotografia, marzy o ...
Porzucona przez ukochanego, Cretego Asgara, Timoney George zgadza się na zaaranżowane przez wuja małżeństwo ze znacznie starszym mężczyzną. Dzień przed planowanym ślubem, w wigilię Bożego Narodzeni...
Panny Wilkins, bogate Amerykanki, zostały wysłane do Anglii, by dobrze wyjść za mąż. Dwie odnalazły tu miłość, ale Violet zniechęca wszystkich zalotników. Jej pasją jest fotografia, marzy o ...
Lucy zarabia na życie, ucząc muzyki. Poznany w niezwykłych okolicznościach lord Max Burnham składa jej korzystną ofertę. Chce, by Lucy dyskretnie ustaliła, z kim potajemnie flirtuje jego przyrodnia...