Margaret Drabble This sequel to "The Radiant Way" describes life in 1980s Britain and is set in a Yorkshire city to which some of the characters have decamped from London....

William Shakespeare   All 37 Plays. All the 160 Sonnets and Poems. Over 450 Illustrations. 1024 Pages.William Shakespeare1564-1616PLAYSAll's Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraAs You Like ItComedy of ErrorsCoriolanusCymbelineHamletHenry IV,...

William Golding This is a one-volume edition of the sequence of three novels set in the early 19th century, about a sea voyage from England to Australia. "Rites of Passage"...

Dirk Bogarde Writer William Caldicott's life is complicated enough. He is about to embark on divorce proceedings when he receives a cryptic letter of farewell from his estranged brother James...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates An epic novel of an American family in the 1950s proves the tender division between what is permissible and what is taboo, between ordinary life and...

Edited by James Cochrane This collection offers twenty-one stories from the literature of America, a nation which has always been particularly at home in this form, and which has produced...

Chingiz Aitmatov Avidiy Kallistratov is a religious idealist with a mission. In his quest to get rid of evil, he begins by investigating marijuana production and witnesses abuse, alcoholism and...

Alice Munro Carried Away is a dazzling selection of stories–seventeen favorites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career.Alice Munro has been repeatedly hailed as one of our greatest living...

Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as:Why do...

Carlos Fuentes Mexico, 1991: Black acid rain falls on "Makesicko City," the most polluted, most populated city in the world. Amid this apocalyptic landscape a prize is being offered to...

Gore Vidal January 1, 1989 by ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD

Annie Ernaux Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a...