The books offer intimate views of the most important woman of her times as she shares her love of her family and of the Highlands and demonstrates her intense interest in all corners of her realm and in the lives of individuals from all classes of so...Loe edasi...
I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuriesThe Professors House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history prof...Loe edasi...
This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction prov...Loe edasi...
Alain-Fourniers lyrical novel captures the painful transition from adolescence to adulthood. First published in 1913, its story of the lost domain where Augustin Meaulnes, le grand Meaulnes, meets a beautiful girl, and his search to recover...Loe edasi...
A new translation into English of The Vagabond by Colette tells the story of thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as she embarks on a stage career. The novel offers a look behind the scenes from a womans perspective, a view enabled by Colettes own sim...Loe edasi...
This is the first ever verse translation into English of the entirety of Book Six of Rumis Masnavi. Book Six is the longest of the books, focusing on self-annihilation in God and the oneness experienced at the end of the Sufi path by the realized my...Loe edasi...
How many things dismissed out of hand yesterday turn out to be true tomorrow?Written in the first half of the career of Jules Verne, the twin volumes of From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon tell...Loe edasi...
I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is known for critiquing a wid...Loe edasi...
Theres an east wind coming... such a wind as never blew on England yet. Arthur Conan Doyles His Last Bow features a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories written at a time of growing tensions in Europe. First pub...Loe edasi...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at th...Loe edasi...
A new edition of the works of the Marquis of Halifax (1633-1695), one of the greatest statesmen of late seventeenth century England. His writing on political activity, on Charles II, on the role of women in society, and his thoughts on morality and h...Loe edasi...
History of a Six Weeks Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their adventures and feeli...Loe edasi...
A new edition of Virginia Woolfs Mrs Dalloway, detailing a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in June 1923. This edition is fully annotated with an introduction that broadens and deepens key aspects of the historical context....Loe edasi...
A new edition of Thomas Mores Utopia—a 16th century socio-political critique made through a satirical account of an idealised fictional society. This edition is based on the first English translation of the text and provides novel insights...Loe edasi...
My little puma! My darling cat! My mountain lion! How will you go on living if we leave each other?Colette (1873-1954) is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. The...Loe edasi...
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!Outwardly a compelling narrative of events aboard a British man-of-war during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Billy Budd is a nautical recasting of the Fa...Loe edasi...
I am in a strange state of mind. I am alone—quite alone—in the world—the blight of misfortune has passed over me and withered me; I know that I am about to die and I feel happy—joyous—The eponymous heroine of Mathilda...Loe edasi...
In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom is the second volume of Marcel Prousts In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom is the second volume of...Loe edasi...
Cant repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!Often called the great American novel, F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New...Loe edasi...
A new edition of Oscar Wildes witty and radical major plays that elegantly challenge Victorian conceptions of social propriety. It contains an accessible and comprehensive new introduction that positions the plays in the context of Wildes life, car...Loe edasi...
