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In The Chinese Conundrum, Vince Cable provides an answer to these and many other topical questions of global politics and economy, examining the lo...

The author was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleon's armies, and he continued to travel and to live in ...

A first biography to provide a full and fresh account of Keat's journey to Naples and Rome until his death. Filled with revelations, it will invite...

Acclaimed for the terseness and simplicity of her language, her poems show an acute power of observation and deep psychological introspection, reve...

The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural r...

These five plays provide an excellent introduction to Kaiser's vision of the regeneration of man, which he illustrated in his works by a total pari...

Written by NPR's former Moscow bureau chief, Midnight in Siberia captures an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.

Part of Alma Classics Dante Collection to include all the works by the Italian bard. This edition is published to celebrate 700th anniversary of th...

Written in Celine's trademark style - a headlong rush of slang, brusque observation and quirky lyricism, delivered in machine-gun bursts of prose a...

The guide contains the complete German libretto with a new English translation by Kenneth Chalmers and incorporates all the dialogue so frequently ...

A drama of ambition, murder, remorse and retribution, the author charts the decline of a Russian statesman, whose dynastic aims were foiled by a gu...

A useful, concise introduction to Sartre's thinking, Politics and Literature investigates concepts and highlights conflicts, interrogations and deb...

This collection of Dante Alighieri's "Canzoniere", translated for the first time in its entirety into English, charts his poetic evolution and disp...

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Collected here in a single volume, Chekhov's account of a tuberculosis-beset journey to the penal colony on Sakhalin. A detailed depiction of the h...

The first of Roussel's two major prose works, Impressions of Africa is not, as the title may suggest, a conventional travel account, but an adventu...

The founding father of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted - through his novel in verseEugene Onegin, his plays, his short sto...

Zen and the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig's worldwide bestseller, holds a unique and unforgettable place in modern Western li...

Warm, funny and perceptive, brimming with wisdom and insight, My Life in Agony is a meditation on the subjects that tend to concern and confuse us ...

This edition is presented in a verse translation opposite the original Russian text. Enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin's lif...

The first ever translation into English of Lampedusa's correspondence. It Includes recently discovered, previously unpublished letters and unreleas...

A priceless chronicle of its time which highlights universal themes, Dovlatov's genre-defying novel also provides moments of high entertainment and...

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A brilliant new anthology of poems designed to lift your mood and help you to overcome stress, depression and general anxiety. Arranged by spiritua...

As well as being a powerful account of self-discovery and an exploration of history and redemption, The Scent of Lemon Leaves is a sophisticated an...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and only collection o...

Often considered to be Celine's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending slang,...

Set against the backdrop of the the Pugachev rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and r...

This collection of Pushkin's shorter fiction contains a number of lesser-known works by Pushkin which are not easily available in English, includin...

Unique edition of the film script of Last Year at Marienbad, one of the most iconic movies of the twentieth century. It contains an introduction by...

Published in 1915 after a long period of gestation and several drafts, The Voyage Out marks Virginia Woolf's debut as a novelist. Perhaps the most ...

Published in 1957 and awarded the prestigious Prix Renaudot, Michel Butor's groundbreaking third novel remains the most popular and widely read wor...

Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story - an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the...

Upon the novel's first publication, Burns was heralded as presenting a picture of his age and capturing the `collective unconscious' of the twentie...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is here presented with A Vindication of the Rights of Men. The two Vindications, taken together, showcase Woll...

A mild-mannered travelling salesman goes back to the island of his birth, and two days after a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilate...

Censored upon initial publication in 1860, a masterful critique of the Russian society of the time. Also included in this edition are the novellas ...

Stories that draw attention to the comic potential of everyday moments. In the title story, a sailor suspects his wife of being unfaithful in his a...

Andreyev's generation-haunting story of lovers parted in the woods at night is collected with fifteen others, some of which are translated into Eng...

The iconic American poet's pioneering and influential expression of presence, enthusiasm and attention, first published in 1855, is brought out in ...

Hailed as a masterpiece of Russian literature, A Nest of the Gentry - Turgenev's most successful and widely read novel, here presented in a new tra...

Written in 1949 but only published in 1979, Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a disquieting and satirical avant-garde political thriller which bridges...

Reducere. Published in 1928 when Shaw was seventy-two, this book draws on decades of political activity and remains one of his brilliant exercises in propaga...

Both a Bildungsroman and a novel of ideas, dealing with themes such as the relationship between fathers and sons and the role of money in modern so...

At once nostalgic for a bygone more innocent age and foreshadowing the turbulences of the twentieth century, Bunin's narrative is a triumph of bitt...

These hilarious adventures make Queneau's novel, presented in the form of a script and parodying various genres, one of the best literary jeux d'es...

Not only is Vita Nuova a lasting monument to the powers of imagination, it also represents the triumph of poetry, love and faith over death - and c...

A story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is...

From the atmospheric recollections of the Palazzo Lampedusa in Palermo at the turn of the twentieth century in 'Childhood Memories' to the delightf...

This edition contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac 'Easter 1916', the apocalyptic "The Second Coming" and the reflective an...

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The Flanders Road' is not only a masterpiece of stylistic innovation, but also a haunting portrayal - based on a real-life incident - of the chaos ...

Written when the author of Cain's Book was at the height of his creative powers and enjoying an increasing reputation in avant-garde literary circl...

Recently adapted for BBC Television, The Ladies' Paradise evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual ...

Twelve chilling and thrilling stories from the darkest stars of modern horror including Josh Malerman, Caroline Kepnes, Stephen Graham Jones, Ramsa...

Chilling supernatural horror combining Japanese folklore with WW2 historical fiction from a multiple award-winning author.Publisher: Titan Books Lt...

Around this love story Turgenev constructs a sharply satirical expose of his countrymen, which famously embroiled its author in a heated quarrel wi...

Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a pro...

Populated with unforgettable characters, such as Alikhanov's fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky or the KGB officer Belyaev, and presented here f...

An understated and impressionistic novel consisting entirely of dialogue, in which two people on a bench sense an increasing connection between them.

Sarraute's debut work of fiction approaches the massive subject of everyday life through a series of sketches and observations. First published in ...

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreco...

Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with dark...

New, award-winning translation of Goncharov's popular masterpiece Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov -...

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Initially published in 1759 to a reception of controversy, this is the picaresque adventure of young and sheltered nobleman Candide through a darke...

Here presented in a new translation, Night Flight is a haunting and lyrical examination of duty, destiny and the individual, as well as an authenti...

Rich in language and detail, and by turns satirical and moving, Proust's stories - presented here in Andrew Brown's nuanced translation, the only e...

Reducere. The basis for Glinka's famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila - Pushkin's second longest poetical work - is a dramatic and ingenious re...

Reducere. Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations ...