In the Cite, a seedy neighborhood where criminals gather, Rodolphe encounters a young prostitute of breathtaking purity who goes by the name Songbird. He saves her from an attack by a ruffian called the Slasher, setting off the dominoes of an epic narrative traversing the ranks of French society.

A comprehensive companion to The Hobbit and Tolkien's universe

"Beyond question Shelley scholars and 19th-century specialists will value this usefully annotated and carefully produced edition." -- Washington Post

Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels--"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl."

A survey of Defoe's career and writings aimed at students, with readings of his major works.

A novel, first published in 1826, set in the 21st century, when England is a republic governed by a ruling elite. The narrator, an outsider introduced to the circle, tells a story of tragic, complicated love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.

Well-known cookery writer Damien Trench is famous for his book A Year In The Kitchen, a diary of everything he cooked and ate over the course of twelve months. This book includes many of his recipes.

Helene Cixous is among the most influential and original literary critics and feminist thinkers of our time. This volume reproduces - for the first time, in any language - a collection of pages from her original writing notebooks, offering a unique insight into her radical thought and work.

In The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, leading scholars discuss her work in several fascinating contexts: literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife of her most famous work, Frankenstein.

The perfect gift for the Lovecraft fan, The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft is an elegant edition boasting the entire Lovecraft fiction catalog.

This Broadview edition's rich selection of historical documents helps contextualize The Story of a Modern Woman in relation to contemporary debates about the "New Woman."

Provides an account of the novelist's surviving papers. This book examines "Sir Charles Grandison", a work attributed to Jane Austen by the author in 1977. In an appendix, he discusses Mrs Leavis's theory concerning the relationship between Jane Austen's life and art, and between the juvenilia and the later novels.

Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

Drawing on memoir and a life lived in pursuit of sensation, but always ignited by the flame of fiction, this title takes us further into the imagination of one of the most radically original prose stylists of the past decade.

An environmental disaster movie of a thriller.

A new collection of Alan Bennett's diaries and more

100 short stories written by women, selected and introduced by one of the nation's favourite novelists.

Developed by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner, this is a magnificently produced adventure story about a clandestine society of rogue travellers

At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever.

Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his subjects, according to age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. He must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder and his longing for a life beyond the castle walls.

A biographical novel in the grand European literary tradition that spans multiple generations and three centuries of tumultuous Central European history, as witnessed by the Esterhazys, a leading Hungarian family.

This striking one-volume edition marks the 75th anniversary of Lewis's classic SF trilogy featuring the adventures of Dr Ransom on Mars, Venus and Earth. It includes an exclusive Foreword compiled from letters by J.R.R. Tolkien, who inspired Lewis to write the first volume.