Master and Man & Other Stories
The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy`s artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion....
Maugham: Collected Short Stories v.1
China has been a wellspring of storytelling for over 2,000 years. Sadly, this fantastic literature is little known in the west outside the halls of academia, though a handful of recent 20th century authors have...
`Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad` Blake MorrisonWritten in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a philosopher, without...
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on...
Hendrik Hofgen, an unknown actor obsessed with fame, renounces his wife and mistress when the Nazis come to power. The culmination of his ascent into Nazi society comes with his performance as the demonic Mephisto....
Northing should be this good. Three weeks on the Keniyan coast with the gorgeous Cara and a part in a cutting-edge experiment on the human mind for Oxford`s hottest researcher. But now Ben Ashurst has been humiliated,...
Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John, a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John`s strangeness is grotesquely mirrored...
Paul Sheldon. He`s a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader-she is Paul`s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident....
"I look out of my window in the morning when I rise as I would out of a port-hole of a ship in the Atlantic." In his imagination Melville lived as well as wrote Moby Dick, his great epic of whales and whaling, It...
In his imagination Melville lived as well as wrote Moby Dick, his great epic of whales and whaling. It tells the story of Ahab, Captain of the Pequod, and of his revenge-mission and insane pursuit of Moby Dick, the...
Abandoned at six months old, Moll has no option but to use her considerable wit and looks to make her way in a world where no mercy is given to the unadaptable. As a woman her options are limited and Moll embarks on a...
Abandoned at six months old, Moll has no option but to use her considerable wit and looks to make her way in a world where no mercy is given to the unadaptable. As a woman her options are limited and Moll embarks on a...
