Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays demonstsrate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the last century.

Offers a general introduction to George Eliot's work as an essayist, translator and poet. Divided into four sections, the book includes book reviews, major long essays written for a magazine, shorter pieces containing many of her ideas and some later essays from her last published book.

Charlotte Bronte's letters are our most direct source of information about the Brontes and the life of the novelist. Vivid and passionate, they describe her inmost feelings as well as the world around her in Haworth, Belgium, and London. They offer insights into her novels and the development of her literary style.

Presents a selection of John Donne's most powerful prose. In this title, he explores the metaphysical collision between poetry and religion, suicide and duty, the secular and the spiritual that characterized his times.

This edition "reprinted with a new chronology, further reading, and corrections"--Copyright page.

This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

This new selection of Mansfield's stories adds 6 stories to Dan Davin's original selection of 27 and arranges them in the order in which they first appeared, in the definitive text established by Anthony Alpers.

A collection of stories where action and drama are implied rather than described openly, and which intend to leave much to the reader's imagination.

A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society.

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius.

A moving and beautifully observed novel, of adolescence, ambition and self-realization, of fathers and sons, set in contemporary Bombay, by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger and Last Man in Tower.

A fictional autobiography of a young writer which takes the reader to Canada, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and elsewhere. This story of love, sex and ambiguity is the first novel by the Canadian author of the award-winning short-story collection, "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios".

A collection of nine ironic, bitter-sweet stories which constitute an idiosyncratic guide to female existence: "How to be an Other Woman", "How to Talk to your Mother (Notes)", "How to Become a Writer", and "The Kid's Guide to Divorce".

Complicated, awkward, funny, cruel, heartbroken, mysterious, this is forms an idiosyncratic guide to female existence. It shows you how to deal with divorce, adultery, cancer, how to talk to your mother or become a writer, the author's way.

The Selfless Act of Breathing is a heart-wrenching and raw novel, tackling important issues such as mental health, police brutality and the power of love from his own unique perspective.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, The Sellout is the most important novel of 2016

A funny, moving love story about facing fears hand in hand - one snake/spider/potentially unstable fourth-floor balcony at a time. But when Esther is pickpocketed by her cocky old classmate Jonah Walker, Esther and Jonah become surprising friends. Skydiving, horse riding, beekeeping, public speaking, reptilehouses - they plan to do it all.