Three of the great American novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the incomparable chronicler of the Jazz Age, are all together in one keepsake volume.F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most acclaimed novels of the twentieth century, and l...Loe edasi...
From 1800 to 1830, Irish writers and orators gave new visibility to Irish literature in English. This landmark study explores the diverse ways they did so, providing insights of consequence not only for the field of Irish literature, but also for wi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009605779)
From 1800 to 1830, Irish writers and orators gave new visibility to Irish literature in English. This landmark study explores the diverse ways they did so, providing insights of consequence not only for the field of Irish literature, but also for wi...Loe edasi...
A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other Jhumpa Lahiri Intense, sharply imagined and fascinating Colm Toibin On that day, ten years ago, I...Loe edasi...
In the footsteps of Doomed to Die: An A-Z of Deaths in Tolkien, and inspired by the works of Edmund Gorey, this insightful parody breathes life into Shakespeare with an illustrated ABC of the Bards more gruesome deaths....Loe edasi...
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYWinner of the Society of American Historians Prize for Historical FictionA terrific political novel . . . Sinister, vivid, dreamlike . . . creepily...Loe edasi...
Few readers know that Jonathan Swift, one of the greatest satirists in English, was also one of the most influential foreign policy writers in modern history. This original study examines his international politics, how he helped clinch a major Euro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009764018)
Few readers know that Jonathan Swift, one of the greatest satirists in English, was also one of the most influential foreign policy writers in modern history. This original study examines his international politics, how he helped clinch a major Euro...Loe edasi...
A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by Frances greatest novelist In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Alma Classics, ISBN-13: 9781847495167)
Martin Salander, one of the Gottfried Kellers most famous novels, is here accompanied by A Village Romeo and Juliet. Both novellas are considered finest examples of nineteenth-century poetic realism. Martin Salander is the only English trans...Loe edasi...
A gorgeously giftable special hardback edition of Around the World in Eighty Days Bound in high-quality cloth with a dazzling new foil-stamped cover design, Puffins Clothbound Classics are a gift that book lovers of all ages wi...Loe edasi...
A gorgeously giftable special hardback edition of A Tale of Two Cities, abridged for readers aged 9-12 years. Bound in high-quality cloth with a dazzling new foil-stamped cover design, Puffins Clothbound Classics are a gift that book love...Loe edasi...
Ford Madox Fords great masterpiece exploring love and identity during the First World War, in a Penguin Classics edition with an introduction by Julian Barnes. A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration, Parades End follows the st...Loe edasi...
Volume I of Charlotte Lennoxs The Female Quixote introduces Arabella, a heroine whose imagination is shaped by French romances. A witty and perceptive classic, the novel explores the power of reading, the nature of desire, and the constraints placed...Loe edasi...
A stunning new edition of Book Two of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the human race....Loe edasi...
A stunning new edition of Book Three of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the human race....Loe edasi...
A stunning new edition of Book Four of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the human race....Loe edasi...
A stunning new edition of Book One of the Patternist series, in which two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together - and changing the destiny of the human race....Loe edasi...
Stunning three-volume deluxe slipcased set of the three Great Tales of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated throughout by acclaimed Tolkien artist, Alan Lee. It features exclusive new paintings appearing for the first time,...Loe edasi...
The greatest novel of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful Clothbound Classics centenary edition Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopo...Loe edasi...
Joyces final work, Finnegans Wake is his masterpiece of the night as Ulysses is of the day. Supreme linguistic virtuosity conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream. Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and al...Loe edasi...
The portrayal of Stephen Dedaluss Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a uni...Loe edasi...
Dubliners, Joyces first major work and written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinchin...Loe edasi...
A thrilling blend of adventure and spy novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication in 1915 and has been adapted for stage and screen multiple times.‘Ordinary fellow’ Richard Hannay returns home one n...Loe edasi...
Edward Prime-Stevensons Imre: A Memorandum (1906), considered one of the first examples of the homosexual novel, depicts the developing romantic relationship between Englishman Oswald and dashing Hungarian officer Imre. The volume also in...Loe edasi...
Sodom and Gomorrah is the fourth volume of Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century....Loe edasi...
One of Rosamond Lehmanns most acclaimed novels. A widely acclaimed story by one of Virago Modern Classics bestselling and well-loved novelists....Loe edasi...
Five of Franz Kafkas most compelling short animal stories, where fable, dark humour and unease collide A community gathers to listen to the singing of a mouse. An ape addresses an academy to explain how he became human. A creature digs ev...Loe edasi...
A magical portrait of the mundane and everyday, made otherworldly in Gertrude Steins one-of-a-kind prose poetry. Objects. Food. And, Rooms. Together these three subjects make up Tender Buttons, Gerturde Steins beautifully strange, every...Loe edasi...
Colettes elegant, unsettling study of love turned hostile - and all because of a cat. A young marriage begins to sour, poisoned by rivalry and resentment. At its centre is a cat adored by the husband, despised by the wife whose presence...Loe edasi...
Herman Melvilles enduringly comic and affecting tale of a man who takes quiet quitting to extreme limitsA new office clerk in a Wall Street lawyers office is the cause for quiet dismay when he refuses to do his job. But how to deal w...Loe edasi...
Two of Dostoevskys most powerful novellas of obsession, cruelty, and the fragility of the heart A pawnbroker paces beside his young wifes body, attempting to piece together the circumstances that led to her suicide. A young man is overwh...Loe edasi...
Two literary giants take to the road on a comic journey - both chaotic, and completely unforgettable Tired of the grind of work, two apprentices set out on a walking tour with no fixed plan, determined to do as little as possible. As they...Loe edasi...
Dylan Thomass vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding ones own artistic voice A boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life and first encounters with the wider world in moments of...Loe edasi...
Sally Bowles is the dazzling centrepiece of Goodbye to Berlin, distilling Isherwoods genius into the tale of one baudy, brilliant woman. 1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, repression and excess, threatened by a rising tide of...Loe edasi...
This is Alcott as you have never seen her before, sharp, gothic, and gloriously unsettlingJean Muir arrives at the wealthy Coventry household as a humble governess. But beneath her meek exterior lies a woman of steely ambition and dang...Loe edasi...
The classic 1920s story of a friendship torn apart, Passing is Nella Larsens devastating masterpiece Irene Redfield is living a life of careful balance in Harlem when a chance encounter draws her back into the orbit of Clare Kendry, a ch...Loe edasi...
This epic and timeless tale recounts the adventures of Odysseus as he journeyed home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy.The story of Odysseus’ perilous journey home after the fall of Troy relates allegorical tales of goddesses and sirens...Loe edasi...
Three of the great American novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the incomparable chronicler of the Jazz Age, are all together in one keepsake volume.F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most acclaimed novels of the twentieth century, and l...Loe edasi...
A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other Jhumpa Lahiri Intense, sharply imagined and fascinating Colm Toibin On that day, ten years ago, I...Loe edasi...
At a Christmas party, a revelation shatters a mans complacency forever At a winter gathering in Dublin, friends and family come together for an evening of music, conversation and ritual. As the night unfolds, small tensions surface, and a...Loe edasi...
A nameless young artist travels into the mountains, in search of the refreshments of nature. Staying at a small hot spring hotel, he soaks in the water and takes walks nearby, always with the intention of painting - though he never seems to get arou...Loe edasi...
Humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone live in a modest house at the bottom of a cliff. Oyone was once married to another man - now her adultery seems to hang over their marriage like a curse. Despite multiple pregnancies, they have no living childr...Loe edasi...
Three supernatural tales of longing and loss from the grand-dame of Gothic fiction, Mary Shelly When a storm drives their boat towards the rocks, a group of sailors is saved by the light of a ruined tower. The locals speak of the Invisibl...Loe edasi...
