Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness modernist masterpiece.

Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy a...

An anthology which includes Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novella, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, together with three of his gothic short stories.

A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.

Engaging, authoritative, and affordably priced, The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms is a comprehensive reference that clearly and accessibly defines hundreds of important literary and critical terms from classical times to the present, making them real and relevant to twenty-first century students through examples drawn from contemporary literary and popular culture.

A pocket hardback of Dostoevsky's literary masterpiece.

Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece in a beautiful pocket-sized edition.

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be a journey of self-discovery and fulf...

Motivated by career ambition the wife of middle-aged Mood decided to break up the family and leave him with bringing up their two boys. After a year the strain of hs teaching job and domestic chores without a mother to help got to him and he decided to get away from it all with a year's paid leave of absence. He boarded a futuristic hydrocosmic interplanetary liner to set sail for Earth's doppelganger Planet-II--And he ran into Nara at the bar! She was almost a generation younger and could've...

Edited, translated, and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, this bilingual anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia, and displays a variety of works by authors who all come from different backgrounds. Some of them are well-known not only locally but also internationally due to festival appearances and translations into European languages; among them are Gennady Aigi, Gennady Alexeyev, Vladimir Aristov, Sergey Biryukov, Konstantin K...