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Cover of Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Joanna Moorhead
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008

Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their goals – even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems...
Cover of English Humour for Beginners
by George Mikes
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016

If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour. So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour,...
Cover of London Labour and the London Poor
by Henry Mayhew
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 1985

London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's greatest city in the nineteenth century: a four volume...
Cover of Selected Journalism 1850-1870
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006

Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal walks around London slums, prisons,...
Cover of The Kreutzer Sonata
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015

Pozdnyshev and his wife have a turbulent relationship. When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children, men begin to flock around her, and he becomes increasingly jealous. Convinced his wife is betraying him with a young musician, his overpowering suspicion drives him to ever more dangerous...
Cover of Adolphe
by Benjamin Constant
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006

Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. Adolphe is enraptured and gradually wears down her resistance to his declarations...
Cover of Blue of Noon
by Georges Bataille
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors...
Cover of The Wild Ass's Skin
by Honoré de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1977

Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence.
Cover of Silence Beyond
by Rachael King (introduced by)
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011

The late Michael King was one of New Zealand's most respected and popular historians. The author of the bestselling The Penguin History of New Zealand and many other significant works, he was a writer of remarkable skill, sensitivity and importance. The Silence Beyond is a wide-ranging and often personal...
Cover of Humphry Clinker
by Tobias Smollett, Shaun Regan
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008

Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the...
Cover of Selected Short Plays
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 1988

This selection comprises: "THE ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE" "HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND" "PASSION, POISON AND PETRIFACTION" "THE GLIMPSE OF REALITY" "THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS" "OVERRULED" "THE MUSIC-CURE" "GREAT CATHERINE"...
Cover of The Fable of the Bees
by Bernard Mandeville, Phillip Harth
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007

A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705. The version of the Fable of 1723 and 1732 are the...
Cover of The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2007

Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful...
Cover of Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an 'awkward mixture of fact and fiction', generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against...
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