Pushkin, considered the father of Russian literature, is beloved not only for his poetry, but for his stories, ranging from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables...
A new edition of the classic work of travel writing, in which Chatwin recalls his journeys across Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs and mysteries of the Aborginals. It's...
Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film.
Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the...
Audrey Niffenegger, bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife, invites you to creep through haunted houses and commune with the undead in this anthology of all things ghostly. Entertain...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RITA MAE BROWNMolly Bolt is a young lady with a big character. Beautiful, funny and bright, Molly figures out at a young age that she will have to be tough to stay...
Featuring an introduction by Juliet Nicolson, this is a colourful family history – scandal, perjury, forgery, passionate love affairs and class conflict – and a revealing self-portrait of...
One of the great literary curios of the 20th century, Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when her husband was working on...
A new edition of Rushdie's classic 1981 magic realist novel, which not only won the Booker Prize, but won the Booker of Bookers in 1993. 'One of the most important books to come out of the...
The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in...
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle...
The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is a reference to Percy Bysshe Shelley and #39;s 1824 sonnet, which begins and #39;Lift not the painted veil...
In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a Trieste cafe, Microcosms pieces together a mosaic of stories - comic,...
After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left...
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to...
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM MARGARET ATWOOD
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out...
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the...
The internationally bestselling novel set in the brutal world of the communist regime, first published in 1941. 'A remarkable book, a grimly fascinating interpretation of... all...
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him...
Long cherished by readers of all ages, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the...
Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the most touching and powerful short stories ever written. Spanning her last five collections and...
'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily ExpressAs The Woman in Black celebrates thirty years on stage, discover the truly terrifying classic English ghost story behind the play. Arthur Kipps, a...
Vintage Classics are proud to reintroduce the first three books of Paustovsky's epic, newly translated. Starting from his Ukrainian youth and going up to his time as a journalist covering...
WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice...
When Nigella Lawson’s first book, HOW TO EAT, was published in 1998, her fresh and fiercely intelligent voice revolutionised cookery writing. Relax and relish the delicious prose in this new...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEYWhen the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady...
The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and...
'Death in Venice' is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One day, at dinner, Aschenbach notices an...
One of the greatest novels of the 20th century, this hilarious satire on military madness is reissued with an introduction by Howard Jacobson. As relevant today as it ever was
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under...
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: a...
The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the...
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWENMrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday.
