As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself as 'a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes' - an identity that will cling to him for a lifetime.
C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him.
1903, and Captain Lalande Biran, overseeing a garrison on the banks of the Congo, has an ambition: to amass a fortune and return to the literary caf s of Paris.
THE ACCLAIMED NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF OLD SOULA sweeping tale of love, fate and sacrifice told through five lives over a thousand years of historyA New York Times Editors' Choice and Notable Book of the Year.
Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's,are a captivating tribute to the Christmas season'We set about choosing a tree.
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness.
"e;If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world"e; First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the original best-selling account of why Britain went to war with Germany.
Perhaps the strangest - and most strikingly modern - work to survive from the ancient world, The Satyricon relates the hilarious mock epic adventures of the impotent Encolpius, and his struggle to regain virility.
Winner of the Nero Gold Prize a heartbreaking and unforgettable story of family secrets that everyone is talking about this summer I ll be thinking about it for ever Barbara Kingsolver A gorgeously written story a must-read Jennie Godfrey I was caught up from the first page and completely taken aback by this story.
As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front.
