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The Gollovlev Family
Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov
The Golovlyov Family is regarded as a classic of Russian literature. According to D. S. Mirsky, it is “the gloo
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s stunning and unnerving report on the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of
The Precipice
Ivan Gonchorov
According to Goncharov, the idea of the third novel came to him in 1849 when he returned to his native Simbirsk
Stalin and the shaping of the Soviet Union
Alex De Jong
With tenacity, cunning and the ruthless use of terror as a political weapon, Joseph Stalin carved his way to su
Despair
Vladimir Nabokov
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965–thirty years after its original publication– Despair is the wickedly i
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Meet Oskar Matzerath, “the eternal three-year-old drummer.” On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a
The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Edward Crankshaw
The downfall of the Habsburg monarchy was more than just the end of a great and powerful dynasty. It meant the
Domesday Book and Beyond
Three Essays in the Early History of England
F W Maitland
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce an
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse
Vicente Blasco Ibañez
The novel, first published in 1916, tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian
Lamiel
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
In the words of Bertrand Russell, “Because language is misleading, as well as because it is diffuse and inexact
Notes for a Journal
Maxim Litvinov
Maxim Maximovich; born Meir Henoch Wallach-Finkelstein; 17 July 1876 – 31 December 1951) was a Russian revolu
Devils
Fyodor Dostoevsky
In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
One hundred years ago Sigmund Freud published The Interpretations of Dreams, a book that, like Darwins The Orig
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the st
The Penultimate Truth
Philip K Dick
What if you discovered that everything you knew about the world was a lie? Thats the question at the heart of T
France 1848 – 1945
Intellect and Pride
Theodore Zeldin
Analyzes the Frenchmans unique national identity, attitudes towards foreigners, education, and intellectual and
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Zulfikar Ghose
This is a novel by the author of A New History of Torments, The Fiction of Reality and Figures of Enchantment.
My House Has Two Doors
Han Suyin
In this fourth volume of her autobiography and history of China, covering the years from 1949 to 1979, Han Suyi
Minima Moralia
Reflections from Damaged Life
Theodor Adorno
A reflection on everyday existence in the sphere of consumption of late Capitalism, this work is Adornos litera
The Wealth of Nations
Books I-IIII
Adam Smith
Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the
Past And Present
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian, critic, and sociological writer. was born in the village of Ecclefechan, Du
Greybeard
Brian Aldiss
The sombre story of a group of people in their fifties who face the fact that there is no younger generation co
The Fall of Baghdad
Jon Lee Anderson
For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power a
The Dark Side of Camelot
Seymour Hersh
If the Kennedys are Americas royal family, then John F. Kennedy was the nations crown prince. Magnetic, handsom
Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy
Edmund Husserl
The first essay can be said to represent Husserl early in his career, when he was seeking to gain a hearing for
The Fall of the Russian Monarchy
Bernard Pares
The dramatic tale of the Russian Revolution unfolds from the perspective of its most famous the Romanovs. Witne
The Lunar Men
The Friends who made the future
Jenny Uglow
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met and made friends in the English Midlands. Most came from humb
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K Dick
Its America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In S
Herzog
Saul Bellow
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily di
What is History
The Goerge Macauly Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in The University of Cambridge January-March 1961
E H Carr
In answering the question, what is history?, E. H. Carrs acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the fa
Discourse on Method and The Meditations
Rene Descartes
René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse
The Aztecs
A History
Nigel Davies
The Aztecs are one of the most fascinating and exotic of the ancient civilisations, and they have captured the
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brillian
Troubled Sleep
Jean-Paul Sartre
Powerfully depicts the fall of France in 1940, and the anguished response of the French people to the German oc
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusive
The Napoleonic Wars
1803 – 1815
David Gates
There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are but a handful of scholarly works that se
The Grand Slave Emporium
Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade
William St Clair
For nearly one hundred and fifty years before abolition in 1807, Cape Coast Castle was, in the words of one of
Times Arrow, Times Cycle
Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Stephen J Gould
Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such
Derrida
On Deconstrunction
Barry Stoker
Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida
Lost Illusions
Honoré de Balzac
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his
Sepulchre
James Herbert
There is a house called Neath that holds a dark and terrible secret.
In that house, there is a psychic calle
Homers Daughter
A Novel
Robert Graves
Nausicaa, a Sicilian princess of the eighth century B.C., looks back on the events of her life and tells how sh
Moral Philosophy
An Historical and critical survey of the great systems
Jacques Maritain
T. S. Eliot once called Jacques Maritain the most conspicuous figure and probably the most powerful force in co
The Modern History of Japan
W G Beasley
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civi
Nicholas I
And Official Nationality in Russia 1825 -1855
Nicholas Riasanovsky
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825 – 1855 developed from a much more modest interest in Uvarov
Flaubert’s Parrot
Julian Barnes
Flaubert’s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of
A Dog’s Heart
Mikhail Bulgakov
Through surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov gives an ingenious new twist to the Frankenstein parable, in
The Historian’s Craft
Marc Bloch
In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques of historic
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He
The Grundrisse
Karl Marx
Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaborati
The Romance of Leonardo Da Vinci
Dmitri Merejkowski
How Leonardo da Vinci become a creative genius? How did he live, love, suffer? With a care for detail & an insp
Zadig / L’ingenu
Voltaire
One of Voltaire’s earliest tales, Zadig is set in the exotic East and is told in the comic spirit of Candide; L
Seven Hanged
Leonid Andreyev
It was like walking along the knife-edge of the highest possible mountain range, seeing life on one side and de
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (aka Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first pu
Glory Road
Robert A Heinlein
Robert A. Heinleins one true fantasy novel, Glory Road is as much fun today as when he wrote it after Stranger
Feudal Society
Marc Bloch
Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist woul
Without You, There Is No Us
My secret life teaching the sons of North Koreas elite
Suki Kim
Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and Nort
Europe Since Hitler
Walter Laqueur
Professor Laqueur sets the scene for his masterly survey of the history of our times – the first of its kind. H
Reich
Charles Rycroft
To Reich modern civilization is founded on sexual repression (especially of the young); and repression creates
The Varieties of History
From Voltaire to the Present
Fritz Stern
This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of lea
Darwin a Life in Science
Michael White
Continuing their successful series of biographies of famous scientists, the authors present a lucid and accessi
Conversations with Stalin
Milovan Djilas
Milovan Djilas was one of four senior members of Titos government until his expulsion from the Yugoslav Communi
A History of the Borgias
Frederick Baron Corvo
Catholic interest, but he certainly reset Alexander in a magnificent if not a favourable light. A very strong m
The Biographical History of Philosophy
v1 c1
George Henry Lewes
The philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes (1817 78) published this work in two volumes in 1845 6. This is a
The World as Will and Representation
Volume 1
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauers Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the
aesthetics, ethics, german, idealism, metaphysics, psychology
Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Neocolonialists think that there are some good colonists and some very wicked ones, and that it is the fault of
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and in
The History of Philosophy
Three Millennia of Thought from the West and Beyond
A C Grayling
The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most c
On Nationalism
Eric Hobsbawm
An insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawms writing on the subject of nationalism.
A History of Modern Japan
Richard Storry
The rise, fall and renaissance of Japan, within the space of less than a hundred years, is one the most curious
An Introduction to Contemporary History
Geoffrey Barraclough
Professor Barraclough isolates in this Pelican some of the main themes of contemporary history. His purpose is
Lotte in Weimar
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wol
An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
John Hospers
This book provides an in-depth, problem-oriented introduction to philosophical analysis using an extremely clea
A History of the World In 10 and a half Chapters
Julian Barnes
Beginning with an unlikely stowaways account of life on board Noahs Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapter
The Collapse of Complex Societies
New Studies in Archaeology
Joseph A Tainter
Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debords The Society of th
Giles Goat-Boy
The Revised New Syllabus
John Barth
In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer sy
Mother
Maxim Gorky
907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a
The Eighteenth Century 1714 – 1815
John Beresford Owen
The Eighteenth century was on of intense transition and achievement. After the wearying turbulence of the seven
King Jesus
Robert Graves
King Jesus,is one of the most controversial historical novels of all time. In it, Robert Graves has summoned hi
Mother Earth
and other Stories
Boris Pilnyak
Mother Earth
Mahogany
Ryazan apples
Tale of the unextinguished moon
Forest dacha
Bridegroom cometh
Three
Paris in the Terror
June 1793 – July 1794
Stanley Loomis
Named one of the books of the century by the University of California, Berkeley, Paris in the Terror tells the
Selected Stories
Konstantin Paustovsky
This selection was specially compiled by the author shortly before his death for publication in English. The re
The Fatal Friendship
Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the flight to Varennes
Stanley Loomis
The hallmark of his writing, in this as in his previous book on Paris during the Terror, is fairness. He never
The Disordered Mind
What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Eric R Kandel
Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal ab
The Complete Novels
Franz Kafka
Kafkas characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by autho
The Origin of Empire
Rome from the Republic to Hadrian
David Potter
Beginning with the Roman armys first foray beyond its borders and concluding with the death of Hadrian in 138 C
The History of Sexuality
Volume 3: The Care of the Self
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressioni
Pure Narco
One Mans True Story of 25 Years Inside the Colombian and Mexican Cartels
Jesse Fink
For a quarter century, Luis Antonio Navia worked as a high-level cocaine transporter for all of the major Colom
The Complete Romances of Voltaire
Voltaire
In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educat
Tono-Bungay
H G Wells
Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no
Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett
Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Brambles tour of the Britain of Geo
Socratic Dialogues
Plato
The Greek philosopher Socrates lived by the tenet that the path to truth was built on questions. When conversin
ancient, classical, epistemology, greek, platonism, socratic
Neuromancer
Sprawl 1
William Gibson
Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece –
Children of the Arbat
Anatoli Rybakov
On a street called the Arbat in Moscows intellectual and artistic center in the 1930s, Sasha, one of a group of
Benito Mussolini
A Biography
Christopher Hibbert
With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities an
History of the Conquest of Peru
William H Prescott
Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescotts maste
History of the Conquest of Mexico
William H Prescott
It is a magnificent epic, said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico i
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
This classic study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during the fourteenth and fifteenth
Island
Aldous Huxley
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has
Rome and Italy
Livy
Books VI-X of Livys monumental work trace Romes fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 38
Chimera
John Barth
By the winner of the National Book Award and bestselling author of The Tidewater Tales, three of the great myth
The Long Weekend
The Living Story of the Twenties and Thirties
Robert Graves
First published in 1940, this survey of the inter-war period not only includes surface aspects of the era – fro
The Vintage Turgenev
Volume 1
Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev has merits denied to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky that give him a secure place among the worlds supreme nov
Surprise, Kill, Vanish
The Definitive History of Secret CIA Assassins, Armies and Operators
Annie Jacobsen
Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the CIA-led covert action operations t
Death Is A Lonely Business
Crumley Mysteries 1
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell
City Of Illusions
The Hainish Novels
Ursula K LeGuin
He was a fully grown man, alone in dense forest, with no trail to show where he had come from and no memory to
Count Zero
Sprawl 2
William Gibson
A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation rea
Foundations Edge
Foundation 4
Isaac Asimov
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First
Consider Phlebas
Culture 1
Iain M Banks
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars t
Language and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu
This volume brings together Pierre Bourdieus highly original writings on language and on the relations among la
The Dark Design
Riverworld Saga III
Philip Jose Farmer
Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought–all since the dea
The Sicilian Vespers
The Rising which brought about the overthrow of the universal papal monarchy
Steven Runciman
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying Death to the
From the Gracchi to Nero
A History of Rome from 133BC to AD68
H H Scullard
Scullards clear and comprehensive narrative covers the period from 133 BC to 69 AD, exploring the decline and f
Selected Political Speeches
Cicero
Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some
The Kiwis Egg
Charles Darwin and Natural Selection
David Quammen
Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no
The Aeneid
Virgil
The Aeneid is an epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a
The Coming of the King
The First Book of Merlin
Nikolai Tolstoy
The legend of Merlin is one of the greatest and most mysterious of all literature. This novel is a reimagining
Imperial Ambitions
Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the post 9/11 world
Noam Chomsky
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducte
The Ships of Earth
Homecoming: Volume 3
Orson Scott Card
The Oversouls chosen people flee the city of Basilica (destroyed in their wake by General Moozh) and travel acr
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
In this book, Charles Mackay discusses the irrational behaviors of crowds in the economy, war and magic. He giv
Obedience to Authority
Stanley Milgram
In the 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that fo
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the
An Introduction to Sociology
A Reader
Robert Bocock
Sociology changes faster than most disciplines – and the past decade has seen the emergence of some new themes
Heavy Sand
Anatoli Rybakov
Two main parts of Anatoly Rybakov are titled after the writers major novels, Children of the Arbat and Heavy Sa
Communism and Philosophy
Contemporary dogmas and revisions of Marxism
Maurice Cornforth
Maurice Cornforth established himself over the past thirty-five years as on of the leading writers on Marxist p
History Of Rome
Michael Grant
From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that do
The Life of Francois Rabelais
Jean Plattard
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis.
Titus Alone
Mervyn Peake
Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner of travelin
A History of the Modern World
From 1917 to the 1980s
Paul Johnson
Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, this bestsellin
The Coma
Alex Garland
After being attacked on the Underground, Carl awakens from a coma to a life that seems strange and unfamiliar.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe
The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story centres around the torments end
The Lifted Veil
Goerge Eliot
Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George
Three Sketches from a Hunters Album
Ivan Turgenev
Early stories from a master of Russian literature. When first published in book form in 1852, Turgenevs remarka
The Murders In The Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham s Magazine in 1841. It ha
A Visitation of the Plague
Daniel Defoe
One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin s 60th anniversary. All the titles are extrac
Now Remember
Vladimir Nabokov
Memories of a rapturous Russian Childhood. Vladimir Nabokov is one of the giants of twentieth century literatur
Etiquette For Renaissance Gentlemen
Baldesar Castiglione
A classic quidebook for noblemen. Upon its publication in 1528, Castigliones handbook was considered something
The Black Monk
And Peasants
Anton Chekhov
In ancient times a happy man grew at last frightened of his happiness — it was so great — and to propitiate t
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
And Other Stories
Poppy Z Brite
Contains four short stories from Swamp Foetus:
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood, The Sixth Sentinel, Calcutta,
Mina Laury
Charlotte Brontë
Set in the imaginary kingdom of Angria, Charlotte Brontë s early story of the Duke of Zamorna and his loyal
The Pleasures and Pains of Opium
Revelations of ecstacy and torment
Thomas de Quincey
Thomas De Quincey began taking opium in 1804. For him it was the key to Paradise, as he experienced visions of
Ada
Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokovs greatest masterpieces, the
The Book of the Damned
Charles Fort
Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of
Islamic Fundamentalism
Dilip Hiro
Islamic Fundamentalism is subject to a myriad of interpretations but, whatever ones position, there can be no d
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Vladimir Voinovich
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak
Dog Years
Günter Grass
A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two frien
Micromégas And Other Short Fictions
Voltaire
Micromegas is a 650-year-old, 39-kilometer-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak 1,000 languages and
collection, enlightenment, fantasy, french, philosophy, scifi
Law and Revolution
The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
Harold J Berman
The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, whe
Europe: Hierarchy And Revolt 1320-1450
George Arthur Holmes
This book provides a classic introduction to a key period in the history of Europe – the transition from mediev
The Perennial Philosophy
Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantia
Living In The End Times
Slavoj Žižek
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek
Red Star Over China
Edgar Snow
The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with t
The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institut
Story of My Life
Jay McInerney
In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. A
The Informers
Bret Easton Ellis
Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city har
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur K
The Drought
J G Ballard
Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction
My Idea Of Fun
A Cautionary Tale
Will Self
Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation
The Dispossessed
Ursula Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and a
Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire
Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary is a series of short essays, hortatory and propagandist, over an enormously
The Aleph and Other Stories
Jorge Luis Borges
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges most fully reali
Six Studies in Hypocrisy
Giles Playfair
In this new book Giles Playfair reviews six famous British trials that involved scandal in high places and reve
The English Face Of Machiavelli
A Changing Interpretation 1500-1700
Felix Raab
In inventing modern political science, Machiavelli challenged the time-honoured preconceptions of Christendom,
Maupassant
Michael G Lerner
Despite the popularity of his novels and short stories it is some years since a major study of Maupassant has a
The Complete Works of Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagr
Safe Conduct
An Early Autobiography and Other Works
Boris Pasternak
The awarding of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak and the subsequent calumny of his fellow
The Leopard
Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy
The Anatomy of Fascism
Robert O Paxton
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteeme
The New Science of Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vicos New Science is
Monsters of our Own Making
The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear
Marina Warner
Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral tr
Penguin Island
Anatole France
Penguin Island is a satirical novel by Anatole France first published in 1908. The book details the history of
Dirty Wars
The World is a Battlefield
Jeremy Scahill
In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill, author of the New York Times bestseller Blackwater, takes us inside Americas new
The Green Brain
Frank Herbert
In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was sys
The History of Germany Since 1789
Golo Mann
The History of Germany Since 1789, which was revised and expanded for the English edition, is history in the ro
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
Niall Ferguson
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prair
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
28 Selected Chapters
Edward Gibbon
Gibbons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisp
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Barrington Moore
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World New Foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott”A landmar
The Decline of Imperial Russia
1855-1914
Hugh Seton-Watson
This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire
Henry VIII
Jasper Ridley
The enthralling portrait by an acclaimed historian of one of Europes most enigmatic and formidable rulers. An e
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China
During the Han Period 202 BC – AD 220
Michael Loewe
In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid
An Anatomy of Terror
A History of Terrorism
Andrew Sinclair
A disturbing and original history of the political use of terror from antiquity to the present day.
Jerusalem
The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of emp
The Middle Kingdom
Inside China Today
Erwin Wickert
Here, chosen by Erwin Wickert from his own diaries, is a marvellous collection of anecdotes, encounters and obs
Guns, Germs and Steel
A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years
Jared Diamond
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While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is af
The Road To Los Angeles
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The English Patient
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With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatjes Booker Prize-winning novel traces the inte
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It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen sto
The Reprieve
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An extraordinary picture of life in France during the critical eight days before the signing of the fateful Mun
The Godmakers
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On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne makes planetfall on Hamal. His assignm
Destination: Void
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The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hybernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is
Extinction
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Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95% of all
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Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbees A Study of History is a
Ragtime
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Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtim
Plagues and Peoples
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Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a ra
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on eac
Gullivers Travels
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For the last 250 years people everywhere have enjoyed reading about Lemuel Gullivers travels in the strange cou
Poisons and Poisoners
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In this chilling, international collection, Michael Farrell investigates many famous poison murders and include
History of the Thirteen
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This trilogy of storie’s Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty, The Duchesse De Langeais, and The Girl with
Speaker For The Dead
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In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the
Point Counter Point
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Aldous Huxleys lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both
The Devils of Loudun
Aldous Huxley
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt
Eyeless In Gaza
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Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxleys highly acclaimed Eyeless
Kierkegaards Philosophy: Self Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age
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Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe. Others we read to discover the nature of ours
Stranger In A Strange Land
Robert A Heinlein
Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the firs
Assignment In Eternity
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Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas an
Roman Society
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Within this narrative, which runs from ninth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. and briefly beyond, Profes
House of Dolls
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The novel describes Joy Divisions, which were allegedly groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps durin
State Of Blood
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Written in exile, under tight security, here is Henry Kyembas inside story of Idi Amin.
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There is a dream called Moonbase, nurtured by ex-astronaut Paul Stavenger and his wife, Joanna Masterson Staven
The Magus
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This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles best-loved and bestselli
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Dr Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insights into the brains
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June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, aw
Human Evolution
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The past 12,000 years represent the only time in the sweep of human history when there has been only one human
The Decameron
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Breakfast on Pluto
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The Soft Machine introduced us to the conditions of a universe where endemic lusts of the mind and body pray up
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, fir
A Brief History of Time
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In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawkings classic work has become a landmark volume in s
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The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwells prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Darwins theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or spe
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Collapse
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Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essentia
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First published in 1894, the story of the diva Trilby O Ferrall and her mentor, Svengali, has entered the mytho
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Ni
Beyond Good and Evil
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Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsches position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dr
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If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P.G. Wodehouses house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightma
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At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by Ame
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London Fields is Amis murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a black hole of s
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In Bryson’s biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand – and, if possible, answer – the o
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An attack on the very foundations of modern psychotherapy from Freud to Jung, addressing with passion and clari
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J G Ballard
A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebelliou
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J G Ballard
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all
Cocaine Nights
J G Ballard
Club Nautico is an exclusive Spanish resort for the rich, retired British. After five people die in an unexplai
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Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenbergs classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and
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A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabok
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Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about
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Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twis
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The Fifth and final part of the definitive set of the complete stories of the twentieth centurys greatest sf au
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Douglas Adams
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the plane
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Patrick McCabe
Pat McNab, driven by rage and despair, goes on a rampage after killing his mother and ends up murdering more th
The Egoist
Goerge Meredith
In this, the most dazzlingly intellectual of all his novels, Meredith tries to illuminate the pretensions of th
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Robert Jungk
This sombre report on Hiroshima since 1945 is the outcome of nearly three years of investigation by Robert Jung
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Goerge Woodcock
The Doukhobors have, from time to time, attracted attention because of their radical beliefs and their often un
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
Lauded by critics & devoured by readers, this companion to the BBC series traces the development of science as
The Debacle
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The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events
The Later Middle Ages
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Goerge Arthur Holmes
Professor Holmes also examines the politics of these years–the relations of the kings of England with neighbor
The Last Emperor
Edward Behr
The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China.
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mills Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British H
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Wilhelm Reich
In this classic study, Reich provides insight into the phenomenon of fascism, which continues to ravage the int
I, Claudius
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Robert Graves
Into the autobiography of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite
Claudius The God
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Robert Graves
Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself. Captures the
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny
Alan Bullock
The classic biography of Hitler that remains, years after its publication, one of the most authoritative and re
Three Who Made a Revolution
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Bertram D Wolfe
The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible–Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin–are the focus of t
Resurrection
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoys major novels. It tells the story of a noblemans attempt to redeem t
The Cossacks
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
To read Tolstoys early sketch, The Raid, and his first novel, The Cossacks, is to enter the workshop of a great
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The Crippled Tree
Han Suyin
In The Crippled Tree Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (eastern and western), a panorama o
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K Dick
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to the streets
Lady With Lapdog and Other Stories
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov may be likened to his contemporaries, the pointilliste painters. Piece by piece, episod
A Short History of the World
H G Wells
Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling accou
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, t
The Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Diaz
Vivid and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history:
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John Fowles
Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it
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John Fowles
In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mys
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John Fowles
In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia — and comes to believe that a beautiful fem
The French Lietenants Woman
John Fowles
The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorsets Lyme Bay…the largest bite from the underside of Englands ou
War and Peace
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
In Russias struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical c
Anna Karenin
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Acclaimed by many as the worlds greatest novel, Anna Karenin provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in R
A Harlot High and Low
Honoré de Balzac
Finance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this
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Honoré de Balzac
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior rela
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and
August 1914
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In his monumental narrative of the outbreak of the First World War and the ill-fated Russian offensive into Eas
The First Circle
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Ne
For the Good of the Cause
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Like Solzhenitsyns world famous novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and Cancer Ward
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don lit. The Quiet Don) is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer M
Hungry Ghosts
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Jasper Becker
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history.
The Art of War
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Sun Tzu
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare an
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Animal Behaviour
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Robert A Hinde
This volume deals with animal behavior on a very sophisticated level. It deals with all aspects from the very b
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Kent Kiehl
We know of psychopaths from chilling headlines and stories in the news and movies – from Ted Bundy and John Way
Mao: A Life
Philip Short
When the Nationalists routed a ragtag Red Army on the Xiang River during the Long March, an earthy Chinese peas
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
This comprehensive anthology of Bertrand Russells writings brings together his definitive essays from the perio
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russells A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaime
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Michel Foucault
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how cla
Madness and Civilization
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle
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Steven Runciman
Sir Steven Runcimans three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical wr
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Steven Runciman
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A History of the Crusades
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Steven Runciman
Sir Steven Runcimans three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical wr
A Short History of Modern Philosophy
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Roger Scruton
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well
Lenin: A Biography
Robert Service
Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on 20th-century history cannot be underestimated. This biography mak
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol wa
The Squabble
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogols short story is a sublime work of tragi-comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian pas
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogols stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a
collection, fantasy, folktales, russia, russian, satire, shortstories
The Arabs: A History
Eugene Rogan
To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by reli
The Penguin Book of The American West
David Lavender
The Americans who went West carved out the Worlds greatest living folk-legend – the epic of the frontier. This
The Penguin History of Modern Russia
From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century
Robert Service
Russias recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is s
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Martin Amis
Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This
Super-Cannes
J G Ballard
Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for t
Hello America
J G Ballard
Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a
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Mikhail Lermontov
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Time looks backward t
A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe
In 1665, the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal of the Plague Year,
Chronicles of the Crusades
Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and re
The Butcher Boy
Patrick McCabe
This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-tow
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series
The Last Days of Pompeii
Edward Bulwer Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii was one of the most popular English historical novels of the nineteenth century. It te
Oblomov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled Oblomovs Dream. The novel focuses on
The Wild Ass’s Skin
Honoré de Balzac
The Wild Ass’s Skin is Honoré de Balzacs 1831 novel that tells the story of a young man, Raphaél de Valentin,
The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories
Alexander Pushkin
Pushkins version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also reflects his
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Devils, or The Posessed, is the most controversial of Dostoyevskys masterpieces. A political drama, it has
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Honoré de Balzac
Les Cent Contes drolatiques (French, The Hundred Facetious Tales) — known as Droll Stories — is a collectio
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Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin was born in the family mansion of Krutschevo in Oryol Governorate (now in Stanovlyansky Distri
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Modern Library volume 98 edited by Saxe Commins.
A History of the Roman Republic
Cyril Edward Robinson
Cyril Robinsons history reviews the transformation of the Roman state from a minor kingdom in a remote part of
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Kants Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and chall
Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens
When Nicholas Nickleby is left penniless after his fathers death, he appeals to his wealthy uncle to help him f
The Wisdom of Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Well over a century after his death, millions follow Marxs revolutionary social and economic philosophies, and
The Civilisation of Charlemagne
Jacques Boussard
Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. He was born before their canonical marr
Plutarchs Lives
Plutarch
Plutarchs Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the ancient world
ancient, biography, epistemology, ethics, hellenic, platonist, roman
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René Belbenoit
Dry Guillotine chronicles Belbenoit’s childhood, the commission of two non-violent and relatively minor thefts
Short Stories of De Maupassant
Guy De Maupassant
Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and effici
Psychology
The Fundamentals of Human Adjustment
Norman L Munn
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior in humans and non-humans. Psychology includes the study
The Road to Reality
A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and compreh
astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, physics, quantum, relativity
Gogol
The Biography of a Divided Soul
Henri Troyat
Gogol was a man of unpredictable temperament and acute perplexity. His physical repulsiveness, illnesses and hy
Before Columbus
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Cyrus H Gordon
Discusses evidence of American landfall by Minoans and Jews in ancient & classical times, and also looks at ref
The End of The Spanish Inquisition
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Jean Plaidy
The final volume of Jean Plaidys trilogy on the Spanish Inquisition traces the tyrannous reign of Philip II, th
The Mask of Sanity
An Attempt To Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality
Hervey Cleckley
The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality is a book wr
The Act of Creation
Arthur Koestler
While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examin
Main Currents of Marxism
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Leszek Kolakowski
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this hig
Bad Pharma
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Ben Goldacre
Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that its based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, th
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances that he determines to become a knight-errant
The Third Wave
Alvin Toffler
The Third Wave makes startling sense of the violent changes now battering our world. Its sweeping synthesis cas
Power Shift
Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century
Alvin Toffler
Alvin Tofflers Future Shock and The Third Wave are among the most influential books of our time.
Nemesis
Bill Napier
From a remote Scottish mountain, Dr. Oliver Webb–one of the worlds great physicists–is whisked away by a mili
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Guy de Maupassant
The fraternal love that Pierre Roland feels for his younger brother Jean has always been tinged with jealousy.
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Alexandre Dumas
Intrigue and adventure in the dangerous days of the sixteenth century.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable Joh
The Legacy of Egypt
Stephen Ranulph Glanville
This is a collection of essays by leading Egyptologists on life in ancient Egypt. It demonstrates the propositi
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful,
The Life of a Useless Man
Maxim Gorky
This book was begun by Maxim Gorky in 1907, less than two years after the unsuccessful armed rebellion on Blood
The Yamato Dynasty
The Secret History of Japans Imperial Family
Peggy Seagrave
In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chia
A History of Greece
Cyril Edward Robinson
Contents of Volume I: A HISTORY OF GREECE is the thrilling story of the rise to power and influence of the grea
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John Barnes
Welcome to the Thousand Cultures–in which humanitys hundreds of settled worlds are finally coming back togethe
Times Arrow
Martin Amis
In Times Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a p
Eternity
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Greg Bear
A visitor from the end of time comes to take a handful of strangers into space, where they must destroy the ult
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Greg Bear
The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of not
The Birth of the Modern
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Paul Johnson
This extraordinary chronicle of fifteen years that laid the foundations of the modern world is the history of p
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Norman Hampson
The men who made the French revolution derived their ideas about politics from montesquieu and Rousseau.
My Country and My People
Lin Yutang
In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed t
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
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Paul Kennedy
A work of almost Toynbeean sweep… When a scholar as careful and learned as Mr. Kennedy is prompted by contemp
The Burn
Vassily Aksyonov
Aksyonovs magnum opus – and quite something: shaggy, surrealist, knowingly comic, painful, and always utterly c
The Idea of History
R G Collingwood
The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. C
History of the Byzantine State
Goerge Ostrogorsky
With clarity and logic, George Ostrogorsky succinctly traces the intricate thousand-year course of the Byzantin
The Way of All Flesh
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Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as t
Candide
Voltaire
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desper
Night Train
Martin Amis
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, shes gone from walking a beat, to
Droll Stories Volume 1
Honoré de Balzac
Balzac’s Droll Stories are one of the greatest achievements of the genius of comedy. For more than a century th
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
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The New York Times Book Review has called Will Self a defiant satirist with a peculiar mastery of the vocabular
The Illearth War
The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever
Stephen Donaldson
After scant days in his real world, Thomas Covenant found himself again summoned to the Land. There forty bitte
A Womans Life
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The most popular and perhaps the greatest of Maupassants full-length novels, A Womans Life is the story of the
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A Novel
Robert Harris
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empires richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, e
The Politics
Aristotle
Aristotles Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows hi
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Goethes activities as poet, statesman, theatre director, critic, and scientist show him to be a genius of amazi
Metamorphosis and The Trial
Franz Kafka
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday Josef K. is arrested for an unspecified crime. One morning Gregor Sams
Dostoevsky: A self Portrait
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Interspersed with biographical commentary by the translator, the letters give a more accurate picture of Dostoe
Return to Dragon Mountain
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Jonathan D Spence
Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of Chinas Ming dynasty. When he was born
Nations and Nationalism
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This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropo
Masculine Domination
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Pierre Bourdieu
Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it
Sanin
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It evoked almost unprecedented discussions, like those at the time of Turgenevs Fathers and Sons. Some praised
The Bankrupt
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Honore de Balzac lived most of his life one step from his creditors; his house in Paris even had a special exit
Diary
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Chuck Palahniuk
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, shes now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer reading for st
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce an
Brightness Falls
Jay McInerney
Brightness Falls is the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway. Set against the world of New York publishing, Mc
The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee
How our animal heritage affects the way we live
Jared Diamond
At some point during the last 100,000 years, humans began exhibiting traits and behavior that distinguished us
Darwins Dangerous Idea
Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C Dennett
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe ca
The Madness of Kings
Vivian Green
From Caligula to Stalin and beyond, this book offers a unique and pioneering look at the recurring phenomenon o
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to
Yellow Dog
Martin Amis
Explores the complex lives of five very different men, including Xan Meo, a one-time familial paragon who suffe
The Rachel Papers
Martin Amis
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most nox
A New History of Torments
Zulfikar Ghose
A New History of Torments is a work of extraordinary imaginative scope by a writer at the height of his powers
Young Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Based on ten years astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy be
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
Stephen Jay Gould
The worlds most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force
Later Medieval Europe
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Daniel Waley
From the divine right of kings to the political philosophies of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-
Doctor Rat
William Kotzwinkle
As the grant-supported, knowledgeable survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, Doctor Rat, Ph.D., d
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakovs comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an en
Mikhail Bulgakov
Critical Lives
J A Curtis
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was one of the most popular Russian writers of the twentieth century, but m
The Fatal Eggs
Mikhail Bulgakov
As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the bril
Area 51
An Uncensored History of Americas Top Secret Military Base
Annie Jacobsen
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesnt exist. Located a mere seventy-five mile
The Demon-Haunted World
Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we dont understand the
Europe Since Napoleon
David Thomson
A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.
The Divided Self
An existential Study in Sanity and Madness
R D Laing
In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the ontologically secure person with that of a p
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published
The Red and the Black
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Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that
The Sleepwalkers
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Arthur Koestler
An extraordinary history of humanitys changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koest
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst t
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The World of Rome
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A brilliant survey of the conquests and culture of the Romans from 133 BC to AD 217–an era of unparalleled pow
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Michael Grant
This fall of the Roman Empire has always been regarded as one of the most significant transformations in the wh
Heavy Water and Other Stories
Martin Amis
In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern maste
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Marie-Louise Von Franz
Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the col
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
Jack D Zipes
The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on childrens lives. But until Fa
Works of Spinoza
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Baruch De Spinoza
The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of
The Philosophy of History
Goerg Friedrich Hegel
Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history — a nov
The World Until Yesterday
Jared Diamond
Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to liter
Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit
Goerg Friedrich Hegel
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spirit is Hegels
The Oxford Companion To Fairy Tales
Various
From its ancient roots in the oral tradition to the postmodernist reworkings of the present day, the fairy tale
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence on philosop
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Ivan The Terrible
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Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants
House of Meetings
Martin Amis
An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis standing as a force unto himself, as The Washington Post has a
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story – subtle, intricate, leading
Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
Modern History #4
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Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973
The Age of Capital, 1848-1875
Modern History #2
Eric Hobsbawm
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revolution–this tim
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
Modern History #1
Eric Hobsbawm
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence
The New Century
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Looking back over the last decade, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts
The World Turned Upside Down
Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Christopher Hill
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic–th
The Century of Revolution 1603-1714
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There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders abo
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutio
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph A Schumpeter
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. Wh
Experience
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Martin Amis
The son of the comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes
Other People
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She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: Youre on your own now. Take car
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chance
Chronicles
Jean Froissart
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century Engl
Makers of Rome
Plutarch
These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Romes greatest s
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The Rise and Fall of Athens
Nine Greek Lives
Plutarch
The nine Lives translated here and arranged in chronological order follow the history of Athens from the legend
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Heretics of Dune
Dune #5
Frank Herbert
With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herberts magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievement
God Emperor of Dune
Dune #4
Frank Herbert
More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in DUNE. Only one link survives with
Children of Dune
Dune #3
Frank Herbert
The desert planet of Arrakis has begun to grow green and lush. The life-giving spice is abundant. The nine-year
Dune Messiah
Dune #2
Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muaddib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the c
Chapter House Dune
Dune #6
Frank Herbert
The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dunes powers, have
The White Plague
Frank Herbert
The White Plague, a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme, tells of one man
The Dosadi Experiment
Frank Herbert
Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
Bazarov’s gifted, impatient, and caustic young man has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady K
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
Considered by critics to be Barths most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status
The Soft Machine
William Burroughs
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of
One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a clas
The Ebony Tower
John Fowles
The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a jo
The Collector
John Fowles
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a
A Nietzsche Reader
Friedrich Nietzsche
The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellect
The Greek Myths: 2
Robert Graves
And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that
The Greek Myths: 1
Robert Graves
Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myth
Balzac
V S Pritchett
With all his accustomed brilliance of perception and style, the novelist-critic V. S. Pritchett here gives us a
Mondo Desperado
Patrick McCabe
From a farmers romance to his skin condition to one mans culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, it all happens i
The Dead School
Patrick McCabe
From the award-winning author of The Butcher Boy comes a new novel of extraordinary power that, according to th
The Book of Dave
Will Self
When cabdriver Dave Rudmans wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only child with her, h
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert Humbert – scholar, aesthete and romantic – has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze,
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
The shocking inside story of how America Really took over the world
John Perkins
From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an expos
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a
Home of the Gentry
Ivan Turgenev
Home of the Gentry is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of Sovremennik. It was enthu
Nana
Émile Zola
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was the perfect t
The Idiot
Fyodor Mikhail Dostoyevsky
Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself en
Four Russian Plays
Four Russian Plays:
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High-Rise
J G Ballard
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and c
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the
Surface Detail
Iain M Banks
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will not end until
The Cash Nexus
Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
Niall Ferguson
Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in th
Lords of the Sea
The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy
John R Hale
The Athenian Navy was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world. It engineered a civilizati
The Western Theory of Tradition
Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime
Sanford Budick
A study of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures: according to th
Defenders of the Faith
Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe
James Reston
In his Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendo
Cycles of Time
An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Roger Penrose
Roger Penroses groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality (2005) provided a comprehensive yet readable
On Platos Statesman
Cornelius Castoriadis
This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renown
Literary Russia: a Guide
Rosamund Bartlett
From the streets of Bulgakovs Moscow to the country estates of Tolstoy, Literary Russia is a breathtaking guide
True Crime: An American Anthology
Harold Schechter
Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, a
Virus Hunt
The Search for the Origin of HIV
Dorothy H Crawford
In Virus Hunt, renowned virologist Dorothy H. Crawford takes us inside one of the great research quests of our
Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good
Mark Matousek
Since the days of the first primitive tribes, we have tried to determine why one man is good and another evil.
The Perfect Theory
A Century of Geniuses and the Battle Over General Relativity
Pedro G Ferreira
Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Ei
Nicholas and Alexandra
Robert K Massie
In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extra
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To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Philip Jose Farmer
To Your Scattered Bodies Go is the Hugo Award-winning beginning to the story of Riverworld, Philip José Farm
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Serpico
Peter Maas
The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of N
Prelude To Foundation
Isaac Asimov
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the gre
A Shortened History of England
Goerge Macaulay Trevelyan
Tells the story of the nation from the remote days of the Celt and the Iberian, through the raids of the Viking
The Odyssey
Homer
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundere
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of Czar Nicholas II and his Family
Pierre Gilliard
A description of the authors time as a teacher to the children of Tsar Nicholas II.
The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle
The book that established Thomas Carlyles reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical
The Family
Ed Sanders
In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and his dystopi
The Seeds of Time
John Wyndham
For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-sna
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K Dick
In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the
Solar Lottery
Philip K Dick
The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery
The Golden Man
Philip K Dick
Heres a chance to read not just one but fifteen stories created by one of the most popular science fiction writ
Peter The First
Alexey Tolstoy
Here, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold