Sort by:
Sense and Sensibility
Author: Jane Austen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Sense and Sensibility is Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit. This Penguin...
The Conference of the Birds
Author: Farid Attar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all...
Candide, or Optimism
Author: Francois Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household...
Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose
Author: Matthew Arnold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage...
Classical Literary Criticism
Author: Penelope Murray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world- they created...
The Art of Rhetoric
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an...
De Anima (On the Soul)
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat...
Poetics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
Frogs and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays...
Lysistrata and Other Plays
Author: Aristophanes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Collecting three comedies that show Aristophanes tackling the consequences of war and social upheaval in Athens with his characteristic wit,...
The Civil Wars
Author: Appian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era...
The Way of a Pilgrim: Candid Tales of a Wanderer to His Spiritual Father
Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A simple peasant seeks spiritual fulfilment in this apparently artless tale of popular piety. 'Here, see my belongings- a...
The Saga of the Volsungs
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'If you travel a road where evil creatures dwell, be wary. ' Legends from the Ancient North Beowulf The...
Fairy Tales
Author: Hans Christian Andersen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Blending Danish folklore with magical storytelling, Hans Christian Andersen's unique fairy tales describe a world of beautiful princesses...
Untouchable
Author: Mulk Raj Anand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'They think we are dirt because we clean their dirt' Bakha is a young man, proud and strong;...
Paradiso
Author: Dante Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 After INFERNO and PURGATORIO, here is the last cantica (part) of the Divine Comedy, in a new translation by acclaimed...
The Divine Comedy & Paradise
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'The most moving lines literature has achieved' Jorge Luis Borges In Paradise, having plunged to the uttermost depths of...
The Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Hell
Author: Dante Alighieri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Dante's descent into the Underworld to find his lost love. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the...
Beowulf
Author: Michael Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A spectacular verse translation of one the most foundational texts in world literature Beowulf is the greatest surviving work...
The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
The Complete Fables
Author: Aesop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...
Greek Tragedy
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an...
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants
Author: Aeschylus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants Bound 'But what mortal man can escape The...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Author: Peter Abelard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their...
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse
Author: Peter MacMillan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A prize-winning translation of the most widely known and popular collection of Japanese poetry. 'How the night deepens. A...
Natural History
Author: John Healey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology....
The Professor
Author: Charlotte Bronte Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as...
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A',...
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A compelling argument for the necessity for art in life, Nietzsche's first book is fuelled by his enthusiasms for...
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation
Author: R. M. Ogilvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Betty Radice's translation fully preserves the clear, articulate style of the original. In his introduction, R. M. Ogilvie...
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Based on Viking Age poems, The Saga of the Volsungs combines mythology, legend and sheer human drama. At its...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Author: Asser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Author: Seneca Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from...
The Symposium
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From...
Republic
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Authoritative new edition of Plato's Republic by acclaimed translator Christopher Rowe 'We set about founding the best city we could,...
The Last Days of Socrates
Author: Plato Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedro 'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone- whether or not what I say is just' Plato's...
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways...
Notes from Underground and the Double
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of hose own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes...
The Gambler and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own...
The House of the Dead
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 1850 Dostoyevsky was sent to a remote Siberian prison camp for his part in a political conspiracy....
The Idiot
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot is an immaculate portrait of innocence tainted by the brutal reality of human greed. This...
Poor Folk and Other Stories
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain...
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness....
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Every bit as claustrophobic, creepy and chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a...
Metamorphoses
Author: Ovid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 "I think this version is terrific. The light enjambed English hexameters are a great success. The effect is properly propulsive."...