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Agatha Christie's life and career told through the decades, from the never-before-published original ending to her first book to the unused ideas for her last, complete with two unpublished Agatha Christie stories - including a lost Miss Marple. In this follow-up volume to the acclaimed Agatha Chris...

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was a major English novelist whose portrayal of strong, independent heroines kindled a movement in feminism in literature in the nineteenth century. Her works remain central to discussion of feminism in literature today and continue to stimulate and intrigue readers. Thi...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Victorian period. Dickens is responsible for some of the most iconic novels and characters in English literature. The novels are notable for their complexity, unique c...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Victorian period. Dickens is responsible for some of the most iconic novels and characters in English literature. The novels are notable for their complexity, unique ch...

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was a major English novelist whose classic works of romantic fiction, notable for their wit, keen social observations and insight into the lives of early nineteenth-century women, remain widely read and loved today. This complete collection of her seven great novels - 'Sense ...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Victorian period. Dickens is responsible for some of the most iconic novels and characters in English literature. The novels are notable for their complexity, unique c...

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction depict the challenges to the human condition posed by the demands of duty and honour. Written in English, his third language after Polish and French, these works are excellent examples of Conrad's poetic prose and ...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Victorian period. Dickens is responsible for some of the most iconic novels and characters in English literature. The novels are notable for their complexity, unique c...

George Eliot (1819-1880) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction are known for their dedication to realism, depictions of rural society, characterization and psychological insight. Born Mary Anne Evans, George Eliot adopted her pen name because she enjoyed working anonymously and...

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction enjoyed unprecedented popularity during the Victorian period. Dickens is responsible for some of the most iconic novels and characters in English literature. The novels are notable for their complexity, unique ch...

George Eliot (1819-1880) was a major English novelist whose classic works of fiction are known for their dedication to realism, depictions of rural society, characterization and psychological insight. Born Mary Anne Evans, George Eliot adopted her pen name because she enjoyed working anonymously and...

Agatha has fallen in love - again. This time it's the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for his attention abounds. With her shameless determination Agatha will do anything to get her man - including footing the bill for a charity ball in town just for the chance to ...

I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too ...In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society. The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. ...

The title story, Three Drops of Blood, follows the protagonist's increasingly unstable mental state through the repeated occurrence of three drops of blood, while 'Hadji Murat' depicts an almost Joycean epiphany in classically understated terms, as a man mistakes another woman for his wife. These ar...

Originally written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story, an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, as if framed within a Persian miniature, a ri...

A novel of satanic decadence in the tradition of J-K Huysmans, FANTAZIUS MALLARE is the tale of a deranged recluse who declares war on reality. In his world of hallucination and twisted eroticism, Mallare needs a woman to worship him as a god; aided by Goliath, his deformed dwarf servant he entices ...

Restif de la Bretonne (1734-1806) was perhaps the key author amongst a glut of imitators inspired by the publication of the Marquis de Sade's "obscene" masterworks Juliette and Justine in the late 18th century. In 1798 Restif wrote his pornographic epic THE ANTI-JUSTINE (or The Joys of Eros), thus i...

The Autobiography of a Cad is the hilarious 'memoir' of an arch-rotter, chronicling the life of one (happily fictitious) Edward Fox-Ingleby. A. G. Macdonell had great fun in writing this book, undoubtedly his funniest. It is written as a tongue-in-cheek 'autobiography' of a man who ploughs his way t...

Cantarel, a scholarly scientist, whose enormous wealth imposes no limits upon his prolific ingenuity, is taking a group of visitors on a tour of "Locus Solus", his secluded estate near Paris. One by one he introduces, demonstrates and expounds the discoveries and inventions of his fertile, encyclopa...

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task - an ailing, world-weary "nobody" - seized with the purposelessness of life and a sense of his own ...

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensu...

Writing under the pseudonym Neil Gordon, A. G. Macdonell wrote several crime and thriller novels. In the classic genre of '20s and '30s crime fiction, Macdonell managed to introduce a different element, unusual twists that keep the reader captivated and anxious to discover what came next. Silent Mur...

Lords and Masters is a work of fiction, but with mastery and style Macdonell uses his undoubted journalistic skill to unmask much that was unpleasant in the West End Society circles of the early 1930s. He exposes the hypocrisy of the monied class and with biting satire weaves a tale of intrigue, tur...

Oscar Wilde claimed that Humiliated and Insulted is not "at all inferior to the other great masterpieces" and Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel, and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and,...