Gustave FlaubertEmma Bovary is the beautiful wife of Charles Bovary and one of the great heroines of literature. Emma attempts to escape her tedious marriage by entering into romantic fantasies,...

Author: Thomas Hardy Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of...

Philippe Huisman and MG DortuSketches, paintings, letters, and statements by the French artist provide insights into his troubled family background, dissolute lifestyle, and preoccupation with Parisian low life

Walter ScottGuy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art. Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position.But the Scotland of this novel is...

Fay WeldonThe Life and Loves of a She Devil(She Devil #1)Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact -- simply a tall, not terribly...

Marilyn FfrenchBy the author of the groundbreaking feminist novel The Women's Room, The Bleeding Heart is a compelling novel about the devastating power of marriage -- and the unexpected power...

Robertson Davies"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High...

Willa Cather"This early novel is now held to be a very critical and pivotal one in the whole development of the novelist, and this new edition provides . . ....

Omar KhayyamTranslated by Edward FitzGeraldIn the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry,...

Simon Sebag MontefioreInspired by a true story, prize-winning historian and acclaimed novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic of marriage, childhood, danger, and...

William Makepeace ThackerayA novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native...

Griff Rhys JonesThe Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems(The Nation's Favourite Poems)This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky'...