Hesperus Press imprint: 54 books

How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

The Original Guide to Living Life to the Full

by Arnold Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015

Originally published in 1910, this guide offers down-to-earth, practical advice about how to make the most of your day and how to strike the work-life balance—an issue still at the forefront of modern society’s concerns As you look back on the year that has just past, do you feel as though...
by Sigmund Freud, David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Finding cocaine to be an analgesic and a cure for depression, Freud hailed it as a miracle drug, stressing in particular its apparent lack of side effects. Marveling at its ability to "cure" addictions to morphine, he enthusiastically recommended it to all his acquaintances. Eventually,...
by Pierre Boulle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

Long before Battle Royale or The Hunger Games, the author of The Planet of the Apes imagined a world governed by science and brutality gone mad in this long-neglected, dystopian sci-fi classic, now in a new translation Despairing at the state of world degeneration, a group of the world's...
by David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Born to Jewish parents in mid-19th-century Austria, Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure needing no introduction, yet his reputation owes as much to myth as to the facts of his life and his work. Here, David Carter uncovers the man buried beneath the mythology, tracing the life of this inimitable...
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004

Before Adam is Jack London’s fictional tour de force. In it, he brilliantly recreates the dawn of humanity, depicting the prehistoric world as a place of dark conflict where only the fittest will survive. Tormented by a succession of terrifying dreams, the narrator is faced with the strange truth...
by Charlotte Bronte
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

When Charlotte’s brother Branwell was given a set of 12 toy soldiers, an entire new imaginary world opened before them. The Twelves, or Young Men, became a constant source of inspiration for the Brontë children, spawning tales of swashbuckling adventure, darkest intrigue, doomed romance, and malevolent...
by Rudyard Kipling
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

Travel with Kipling through India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton (now Guangzhou), Japan, and Burma Rudyard Kipling spent many years abroad and his relationship with India is explored in several of his works, both fiction and non-fiction. After leaving school, Kipling was sent to Lahore to work...
by Charlotte Brontë
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Charlotte Brontë’s first ever book is a love story full of feeling and emotion told from a male viewpoint—a must read for Brontë fans Thinly veiling her personal experiences, Brontë uses a male narrator in this autobiographically inspired romantic love story, making this a fascinating...
by Marquis de Sade, David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

Herman and the noble and proud Ernestine, two young lovers, find themselves confronted with a pair of libertines who will stop at nothing—not even the confines of the law—to assuage their desires. Count Oxtiern, villainous and dissolute, and his accomplice Madame Scholtz, a widow of lusty temperament,...
by Émile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002

In these three short stories, Émile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment—romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Thérèse commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he...
by Émile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

A wonderful collection of three surreal stories from French master Émile Zola given a fresh new translation   Sixty-two-year-old Louis Roubieu sees his family's long-awaited prosperity as a reward rained upon him by God for years of arduous toil on the land. Yet it is the very abundance...

Alexander

A Novel of Utopia

by Klaus Mann
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Alexander is a stunning work of historical reimagining from a troubled and unjestly neglected writer. Written in 1929 by the son of Thomas Mann, Alexander shows why Klaus Mann is regarded in Germany as one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century.
by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

A neglected American classic, written in subtle, soaring prose for which this underrated Kentucky writer was known, this is the spectacular coming of age story of a young, independent pioneering woman Set at the turn of the century, this is the moving story of Ellen Chesser, a young woman...
by Florence Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015

Florence Hartley's insightful etiquette guide was first published in 1860, and yet her witty and useful advice on behaving like a lady often still rings true down the ages What should you do if you notice a stranger's dress is tucked up at the back? What are you meant to say if you are offered...
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