In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written; he regarded the book as 'a remarkable tour de force'.
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a new translation by Michael Hofmann, translator of Alone in Berlin Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin.
Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate.
'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter AckroydSet against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution.
Evelyn Waugh's beloved masterpiece, with an introduction by Paula Byrne The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War.
The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict Italo Calvino Gonzalo is a highly educated man living alone with his ageing, widowed mother in a town scarred by war.
The first book in an action-packed, poignant duology inspired by Nigerian mythologyDemi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy her ancestral homeland of Ife; to escape the King's brutal genocide of her people - the darker skinned, magic wielding Oluso; and to live peacefully with her secretive mother while learning to control the terrifying blood magic that is her birthright.
En una finca campestre, durante un verano luminoso y agitado por intrigas sentimentales, un nino sensible y observador descubre, casi sin comprenderlo, la intensidad del orgullo herido, los celos y el amor idealizado.
La maja desnuda (1906) se adentra en el mundo artistico y bohemio del Madrid de comienzos del siglo XX, donde el talento, la ambicion y el deseo se entrecruzan en un ambiente marcado por la rivalidad y el ansia de reconocimiento.
Le Pere Goriot (1835) raconte l'histoire d'un ancien commercant qui, apres avoir sacrifie sa fortune au bonheur et a l'ascension sociale de ses filles, vit ses dernieres annees dans la modeste pension Vauquer, dans le Paris de la Restauration.
Constance Chatterley lives trapped in a marriage defined by emotional distance and her husband's physical disability, an aristocrat left paralyzed after the war.
A traves de las cartas de la ingeniosa y encantadoramente imprudente Laura, se despliega una sucesion de amores fulminantes, amistades exaltadas, desmayos estrategicos y decisiones tan apasionadas como temerarias.
Los muertos mandan (1909) situa al lector en la isla de Ibiza, entre tradiciones ancestrales y un paisaje dominado por el mar y la tierra aspera, donde Jaime Febrer regresa a su hogar con el peso de un linaje que parece dictar su destino.
Ein unbedingt wiederzuentdeckender Roman der 1920er Jahre, der die Sehnsucht nach Versohnung von Mensch und Maschine und nach einem Frieden zwischen Natur und Mensch beschreibt.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) recounts the experience of a woman subjected to a strict rest cure after a nervous crisis, confined to a room whose unsettling yellow wallpaper becomes the obsessive focus of her gaze.
Ein unbedingt wiederzuentdeckender Roman der 1920er Jahre, der die Sehnsucht nach Versohnung von Mensch und Maschine und nach einem Frieden zwischen Natur und Mensch beschreibt.
The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, exploring the gradual transformation of rural English life and the inner awakening of its characters.
