Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he wanders the streets, from hotel to bar, cinema to tram stop, experiencing strange... Zobraziť viac
When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for fifty-eight years until his retirement... Zobraziť viac
A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European... Zobraziť viac
An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poets... Zobraziť viac
Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, the war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America seething with student protest... Zobraziť viac
Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: Although 'continually and bitterly ashamed' that the Arabs had risen in revolt against the Turks as a... Zobraziť viac
Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian emigres. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia... Zobraziť viac
A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening... Zobraziť viac
These eighteen tales of the macabre show DahlÂ’s dark brilliance as a short-story writer. They are wicked (as an old man... Zobraziť viac
In these macabre, acid and very funny short stories, Saki drives a knife into the upper crust of English Edwardian life. Here we meet, in particular, two of his most brilliant creations, the self-possessed... Zobraziť viac
The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Professor Timofey Pnin, previously of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously positioned at the heart of... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: Interzone portrays the development of Burroughs's mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: The Bright Young Things of 1920s Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication,... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: 'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of... Zobraziť viac
This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939... Zobraziť viac
1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. For her brother Uli, it is a place of stricture and oppression... Zobraziť viac
In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark's most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life - a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father's beloved knife... Zobraziť viac
Anna Freud was one of the most creative and innovative thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis, whose pioneering work in child analysis and development revolutionized the treatment of the young... Zobraziť viac
