In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes...
Dubliners by James Joyce is a landmark collection of fifteen short stories that vividly portray the lives of ordinary Dubliners at the turn of the 20th century. Through themes...
'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful,...
As Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known lectures. King had...
As Cabaret returns to the West End, revisit the KitKat Club in the book that introduced Sally Bowles to the world.Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that...
Read F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America.Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a timeless tale of love, independence, and resilience. This edition offers readers the full, unabridged text of the Gothic classic in a...
Madame Bovary (Paperback Edition) by Gustave Flaubert is a cornerstone of literary realism and a timeless exploration of human desire and disillusionment. This masterpiece tells...
‘A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man’s efforts can change the future for so many. It’s a real message of hope.’ Michael...
Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling...
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most...
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway captures a single day in post-WWI London through the eyes of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party. Interweaving internal monologue and...