JRR Tolkien The original ‘fantasy’ series, and still the greatest, The Lord of the Rings has sold over 100 million copies, been translated into more than 40 languages, and has...

JRR TolkienThe Lord of the Rings cannot be described in a few words. J.R.R. Tolkien's great work has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic of science fiction....

Thomas MannWritten by the most important figure in German literature in the first half of this century, The Magic Mountain is in Mann's own words 'a dialectic novel'. The seeting...

CS Lewis The secret passage to the house next door leads to a fascinating adventureNARNIA...where the woods are thick and cold, where Talking Beasts are called to life...a new world...

Jean Genet The two plays featured in this volume represent Genet's first attempts to analyze the mores of a bourgeois society he had previously been content simply to vilify. In...

Agatha ChristieAnne Beddingfeld is a nice English girl looking for a bit of adventure. But she stumbles upon more than she bargained for! A beautiful ballet dancer is brutally murdered...

Brian Moore Not so long ago James Mangan was a brilliant young poet. These days, however, he toils as a journalist and shivers in the shadow of his glamorous movie-star...

Mikhail BulgakovThe first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one...

Mikhail Bulgakov The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of...

RumiEdited and Translated by Reynold A NicholsonMawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi's great poem, the Mathnawi is one of the best known and most influential works of Muslim mysticism. The Mathnawi was...

AS ByattEach story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about the ways in...

Author: Thomas Hardy I’ve not always been what I am now’In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country...