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(Hardback)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781509827978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An abridged edition of the ultimate revenge story by Alexandre Dumas
(Paperback, 2nd Edition)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781667209715
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2025
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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Hope. Justice. Vengeance. You won't want to miss this classic tale!
(Hardback)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780141392462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to grim fortress of the Chateau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible for his incarceration.
(Hardback, Bonded Leather)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9781435132115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Presents a classic adventure story. This title features an elegant bonded-leather binding, a satin ribbon bookmark, distinctive gilt edging and decorative endpapers.
(Paperback)
By: Kay Boyle
ISBN: 9781782279464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2024
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Paperback)
By: F Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 9780141195117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital, he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy is a weathered, aged man. As time goes by, young Benjamin comes to no longer require a cane, his hair ceases to be grey, his limbs become less frail, his wrinkles less deep, but still the world around him fails to come to terms with his oddness.
(Paperback)
By: Dorothy Parker
ISBN: 9780241339589
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780143137214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"Wharton's sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Vitae edition, with a foreword by Sofia Coppola"--
(Paperback)
By: Nathanael West
ISBN: 9780241341674
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781529410570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This collection forms part of a three-volume edition of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected and with a preface by Sharon Cameron, and translated by his friends Louise and Aylmer Maude.
(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780241251768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...
(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780140449617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A devastating account of a man fighting his inevitable end, and asks the existential question: why must a good person be taken before his time
(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780099541066
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This intensely moving story of Ivan Ilyich's lonely end is one of the masterpieces of Tolstoy's late fiction.
The ten other stories in this collection include 'The Kreutzer Sonata', 'The Devil', and 'Hadji Murat' which has been described by Harold Bloom as 'the best story in the world'.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780099284574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty.
(Paperback)
By: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780241720486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Raymond Radiguet
ISBN: 9780241372616
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First published in France as Le Diable au Corps in 1923. This translation first published in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars Ltd, 1968.
(Hardback)
By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9780691212777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Dante Alighieri
ISBN: 9781784871987
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Now Ellis's translation of the entire poem is published here for the first time, and Dante's epic can be experienced afresh and in new glorious life and colour, the physicality and immediacy of Dante's verse rendered in English as never before.
A NEW TRANSLATION BY STEVE ELLIS
(Paperback)
By: mile Zola
ISBN: 9780140449549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on path to a decent, respectable life at last.
(Hardback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780241619742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781784878054
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780141191829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A notice in "The Times" addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer, escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781847497215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Here presented in a new edition to include pictures and an extensive section on von Arnim's life and works, The Enchanted April has inspired generations of readers since and established Portofino and the Italian Riviera as a mainstay of the tourist circuit
(Paperback)
By: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780241338971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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