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Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century. This landmark selection of his short stories opens up a world of wonder, love, cruelty...

Reissued in Modern Classics in the run up to the 50th anniversary of its first publication The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who...

First published in 1946, the novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949 and re-made in 2006 with an all-star cast...

First time published individually in Modern Classics, together with I, CLAUDIUS Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his...

New to Modern Classics, published alongside the other Rabbit novels It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war...

First time in paperback for this charming novel of life in exile in the 1930s Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to...

'New to Modern Classics, with a new afterwordby Justin Cartwright It's 1989, and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom is far from restful. Fifty-six and overweight, he has a struggling business on his...

Both devastating and funny, The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience - and one of the great twentieth-century London novels At Waterloo Station, hopeful new arrivals from...

'The first and, in some respects, still one of the best novels about the Beat Generation... brilliant and important' The Los Angeles Free Press The novel that launched the beat...

Published for the first time in Modern Classics alongside Doctorow's Ragtime. As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife...

'Perhaps the finest novel of the war .... A fine, lovely book which makes the heart beat with pride' Daily Telegraph When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied...

Unique novella that captures the mood of Cold war Berlin like no other - worth considering connecting publication in some way with 9th November anniversary of fall of the Berlin...

NEW selection of stories introduced by Julian Barnes The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns...

'Qian's ability to see his life and times through the lens of very dark humour, along with his talent for incidental cultural and social observation and his cold and cruel...

Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. In Miss Elizabeth Mapp of...

This major new collection brings together the key writings from every stage of Freud's career to offer the perfect introduction to his life and work. Here are the essential ideas...

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow...

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two great books: the posthumously published Memoirs of the Forties and this...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat includes an introduction by Abdulrazak Gurnah, author...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century- a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able...

'his voice attains a kind of living flexibility that seems both spontaneous and controlled' Daily Telegraph The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise...

'A bitter yet funny satire ... probably the best book to come out of West Africa' Anthony Burgess As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M. A. Nanga is 'a man...

In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the Forsytes. For centuries, the Cherrell sons have left...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence....

Celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of...

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune....

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render...

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has...

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of fifties English life. Nothing escapes his disaffected eye and...

'There has been no more terribly acute critic of America than this steel-conscious and death-conscious Spaniard, with his curious passion for the modernities of nickel and tinfoil and nitre ....

In this experimental trilogy, Dos Passos uses \"camera eye\" and \"newsreel\" sections to create a fragmented atmosphere. Through the testimony of numerous characters, both fictional and historical figures, he buids...

A nuanced, satirical portrayal of malevolent totalitarianism and sinister bureaucracy The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under...

A mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monroe Stahr, the last of the great Hollywood princes. Enchanted by one another, they begin a passionate but hopeless love affair.

This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle...

While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His...

A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he...

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking':...

These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world. Lucifer...

A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid...

'A masterpiece . . . as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw' Time Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a...

In his work as a physician, Williams had learnt the skill of objective observation which he applied to his poetry, examining, as he said, 'the particular to discover the universal'....

The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself,...

The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the...

A delightful autobiographical novel from one of Ireland's best-loved writers My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no...

Probably the greatest twentieth-century writer never to win the Nobel prize for literature. The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including Southern Mail and Night Flight....

Published in order of first publication as far as possible, this selection ranges from initial offerings such as 'Tinker's Wife' and 'Inniskeen Road: July Evening' to his tragic masterpiece 'The...