Simon Sebag Montefiore   Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Outside the Smolny Institute for Noble Young Ladies, an English governess is waiting for her...

Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku." HERE...

Thomas Keneally In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker, and a...

Abby Green"Shocking secrets of the sands!"When she gave herself to Sheikh Salman in Paris five years ago, Jamilah Moreau fantasized about wedding dresses and happy endings. But Salman was driven...

Jerome Rothernberg Jerome Rothenberg holds a premier place in the American avant-garde. The poems in  Seedings , his newest collection, leap across history. Past and future become entwined, and the...

John Updike On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo EmersonBorn in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been called a "cosmic optimist" and the first of American Romantics. Enormously influential and controversial in...

John KeatsA collection of poems by John Keats, which includes Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Hyperion.English and Spanish Edition

Elizabeth Barrett Browning I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints-I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,I...

William Wordsworth One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief...

Anton Chekhov Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of and which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to a collection...

Jane AustenThe more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!'Marianne Dashwood...