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Franz Kafka

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. Thus begins The Metamorphosis, cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. A story of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, who wakes up one day to discover that he has metamorphosed into a bug, The Metamorphosis is a book that conc...

Sophocles

Mark Haddon

Jane Austen

Gaston Leroux

Edgar Allan Poe

Albert Camus

Jane Austen

Alexandre. Dumas

Alexander Dumas's classic tale of betrayal, wrongful imprisonment, and revenge, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantès is confined to the grim fortress of Chateau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo, and he becomes ...

George Orwell

Jane Austen

Joan Lindsay

Hermann Hesse

An inspirational classic from Nobel Prize-winner Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha is a beautiful tale of self-discovery. 'A subtle distillation of wisdom, stylistic grace and symmetry of form' - Sunday Times 'It's hard to think of a more recent novel that has sung so eloquently the joys of being alone' - Guardian Dissatisfied with the ways of life he has experienced, Siddhartha, ...

Émile Zola

'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establish...

John Williams

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Albert Camu

Ernest Hemingway

Anna Serre

Alexandre Dumas

Tolstoy, Leo

Dickens, Charles

John Fowles

Albert Camus

Shirley Jackson

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurr...

James Joyce

James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. This Penguin Classics edition includes notes and an introduction by Terence Brown.Joyce's first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the ...

Agatha Christie

Jane Austen

Huxley