Pretty clothbound hardback that includes nine stories in addition to A Child's Christmas in Wales, mostly autobiographical ones drawn from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. Gloriously f... read more
A haunting, spectral thriller with its own turbulent history. Due to its allusions to Austrian resistance and its brutal account of Germany's invasion of Poland, the book was banned by the N... read more
A new translation of the work of China's most celebrated classical woman poet: separated from us by a millennium, her voice is clear, her themes familiar, her images vibrant.
A taut and unsettling novella from this inimitable author. Lise, an oddly dressed and increasingly erratic woman, leaves her northern European city for an unnamed destination in the south. W... read more
Literary/political account of the author's visit to Israel in 1975, in which he gives voice to those he encounters: government notables, famous writers, barbers... and offers his particular ... read more
A writer, poet, painter and doctor, Levi was banished to the remote and extremely poor region of Lucania for his opposition to Mussolini's regime. Described as a documentary novel, this is a... read more
Lispector's last novel follows Macabea, a poor, sickly typist living in the slums of Rio who dreams of glamour but lives a life defined by invisibility and powerlessness. The narrator Rodrig... read more
Six cloth-bound editions, in a slipcase -' Great Expectations', 'Hard Times', 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'Bleak House' and 'A Tale of Two Cities'.
A new translation by a distinguished classicist, a fine verse rendering that keeps much of the formal poetics of the original. With an introductory essay and notes by the translator.
Spiced with Dickens's wit and eye for detail, this is a tautly plotted, dazzling historical thriller. Set before and during the French Revolution, it turns on a French nobleman who repudiate... read more