Arthur Miller`s play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a...
Natashas Dance: Cultural History of Russia
Even if one takes nothing else away from this elegant, tightly focused survey of Russian culture, it`s impossible to forget the telling little anecdotes that University of London history professor Figes (A People`s...
A wonderful new store has opened in the little town of Castle Rock, Maine. Whatever your heart`s secret desire - sexual pleasure, wealth, power, or even more precious things - it`s for sale. And even though every item...
An epic saga of life, death, tears and laughter, from a storyteller thousands have come to love and trust. Moving from the slums of Victorian London to the plains of the Wild West, the darkest edges of New York and...
New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency
Now revised and fully updated, this expanded edition of an enduring classic is still the key reference to living off the land. Packed with practical information, tried-and-tested tips and invaluable nuggets of advice,...
This is a collection of terrifying stories that reveal a shudderingly detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become...
Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in,...
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her...
"Northanger Abbey" is Jane Austen`s amusing and bitingly satirical pastiche of the "Gothic" romances popular in her day. Catherine Morland, an unremarkable tomboy as a child, is thrown amongst all the "difficulties...
Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.
Behind the doors of the most famous address in the country, all is not well. Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted in to Number Ten after a landslide election result. But things are starting to go wrong. The love has...
Goncharov’s detached yet sympathetic portrait of the humdrum life of his ineffectual and slothful hero is a tragicomedy created through painstaking accumulation of seemingly insignificant details alongside a...
Octopussy and the Living Daylights
M looked coldly across the desk. It was going to be dirty work and Bond, because he belonged to the Double 0 section, had been chosen for it. `You`ve got to kill this sniper. And you`ve got to kill him before he gets...
