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Black Mischief
'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.'When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his …
Love and Exile
From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this autobiographical trilogy. In A …
The Graduate
As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy a life of …
A Night in Acadie (1897), by Kate Chopin (Penguin Classics): Original Version
The Pit: A Story of Chicago(1903), by Frank Norris (Penguin Classics)
The Mersey Sound
'I wanted your soft vergesBut you gave me the hard shoulder'The Mersey Sound brought poetry down from the shelf and on to the street, capturing the mood of the Sixties and speaking …
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out …
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001
New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of …
Cotton Comes to Harlem
'A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest' The New York TimesA preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in …
Henry James
Presents a selection from the author's correspondence with presidents and prime ministers, painters, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H G Wells and …
Billy Bathgate
'I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom'It's 1930's New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can …
PARADISE POSTPONED
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in …