HESPERUS PRESS Spring 2012
February 2012 A Pocket Guide to Dickens’ London Daniel Tyler
Message from the Publisher
From Newgate Prison to Covent Garden and from his childhood home in Camden to his place of burial in Westminster Abbey, A Pocket Guide To Dickens’ London traces the influence of the capital on the life and work of one of Britain’s best-loved and well-known authors. Featuring over forty sites – places of worship and of business, streets and bridges – A Pocket Guide to Dickens’ London not only locates and illustrates locations from works such as Great Expectations and Little Dorrit but demonstrates how the architecture and landscape of the city influenced Dickens’ work throughout his life. Each site is illustrated with substantial quotations from Dickens’ own writing about the city he loved.
It is ten years since Hesperus Press started publishing its now familiar mix of high-quality flapped paperbacks of lesser-known classics of English and foreign literature, along with translations from modern writers in a range of languages. The titles have often had an element of discovery about them – books that have been ignored by mainstream publishers but deserve a wider readership. In 2012, we will be expanding our range in two ways. Most Hesperus books up till now have been short – 100 to 150 pages. We will now be publishing longer books if we feel they are continuing our tradition of discovering neglected texts. One example of this is Europe in the Looking Glass, the first book by Robert Byron, acknowledged as one of the twentieth century’s great travel writers. All his other books are in print, but this has been unavailable since it was published in 1926.
With this book in their pockets, visitors to London in 2012, two hundred years after Dickens’ birth, will be able to slip away from the Olympic Games and explore parts of London they might otherwise never see. And the residents of London who think they know the city will be surprised by the Dickens connections to be found around every corner.
As well as varying our formats, we will be branching out into other types of books. A Pocket Guide to Dickens’ London and Bardell v. Pickwick broaden our coverage of aspects of Charles Dickens’ writing and life in the 200th anniversary year of his birth; Grandma Elmaleh’s Moroccan Cookbook reveals an appealing combination of Jewish and Arab cooking as practised in a small Moroccan seaport; the Middle East theme, a growing element in our list, includes the lyrical and moving memoir, The First Well, and an Oriental view of John Milton,Once Upon the Orient Wave.
Daniel Tyler lectures in English Literature at Oxford University, specialising in Romantic and Victorian literature, particularly the poetics of the Victorian novel. Feb 2012 • 978 1 84391 352 8 • B format Hb • 160pp • £12
One important role for a publisher is to surprise its readers by the choice of its titles. As I write this, we are planning an even more surprising second half of 2012, in an attempt to make our tenth year a truly significant one for us and our readers.
‘ … the opposing rows of houses in Harley Street
alike in that respect, that the people were
Karl Sabbagh Managing Director
were very grim with one another. Indeed, the mansions and their inhabitants were so much often to be found drawn up on opposite sides of dinner-tables, in the shade of their own loftiness, staring at the other side of the way with the dullness of the houses.’ – Little Dorrit
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Europe in the Looking Glass Robert Byron The first book by one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers. With a mixture of laugh-out-loud humour and perceptive commentary on art and architecture, three rich young men cross pre-World-War-Two Europe in an old car. Best known as the author of The Road to Oxiana (published in 1937), Robert Byron developed his considerable writing skills on a travel book which has not been in print since 1926. Europe in the Looking Glass describes a journey Byron made with three friends, driving across Europe between two world wars, and mixes political and historical analysis with architectural insights, classical scholarship and the day-to-day adventures of three young and not very experienced travellers.
Brief Lives: Henry James Hazel Hutchison
Turning a corner we suddenly found ourselves sliding down a precipice, tilted so far forward that it was necessary to hold ourselves back with our hands pressed against the dashboard, as half a dozen Apennine valleys beckoned invitingly below …
Henry James is known for the psychological depth of his characters; for his remarkable ability to penetrate to the inner life of his creations. Yet the story of his own inner life remains curiously obscure.
Here [St Peter’s] Popes with black faces and golden crowns are wallowing twice life-size in the titanic folds of marble tablecloths, their ormolu fringes festooning upon the arms of graceful skeletons to disclose some Alice-in-Wonderland door or the grim hinges of some sepulchral grill … For fans of Robert Byron’s work this will be a discovery; for others it will be an introduction. Robert Byron (1905–41) was an author from a privileged background with a rebellious streak. He is considered one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers as well as a noted art critic and historian. He died seventy years ago when the ship he was travelling in as a war correspondent was torpedoed by a U-boat in the North Atlantic. Feb 2012 • 978 1 84391 357 3 • B format Pb • 200pp • £12
‘This book makes no pretentions to literary merit. It is offered to the public in the sole hope that the public will buy it.’
The best known facts about James – his illustrious, wealthy family and famous siblings; his prolific literary output with its numerous quirky female heroines; his long-term bachelorhood, and the rumours that accompanied it; and his flamboyant adoption of British citizenship in 1915 – have created a mythology surrounding the author. In this succinct new biography, Hazel Hutchison examines the writer’s childhood, travels, experiences and acquaintances – all of which re-appear to varying degrees in his writing. Brief Lives: Henry James presents a fresh take on one of the central figures in the English canon – perfect for both the general reader and the James enthusiast. Hazel Hutchison is a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Aberdeen and the author of Seeing and Believing: Henry James and the Spiritual World (2006). Feb 2012 • 978 1 84391 923 0 • B format Pb • 150pp • £10
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The Birthplace Henry James Foreword by Mark Rylance Blackport-on-Dwindle – ‘all granite, fog and female fiction’ – has been the Gedges’ dull home town for some years. They leap, therefore, at the invitation to become the live-in guardians of the birthplace of the nation’s literary hero. In The Birthplace, James displays his eye for character and a wry appreciation of pretension and the absurd. James doubted Shakespeare’s authorship of the plays ascribed to him and The Birthplace illustrates his cynical attitude towards the cult of the Bard and the visitor industry that it had engendered. The Birthplace is published here alongside The Private Life, another little-known work in which James again considers the relevance of the artist’s persona – a theme with continued relevance in literature and the art One of the leading figures in nineteenth-century American literature, Henry James (1843–1916) was a novelist, playwright and literary critic who settled in England. Mark Rylance (b. 1960) is an English actor, theatre director and playwright. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe. Feb 2012 • 978 1 84391 207 1 • B format Pb • 140pp • £10
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March 2012
Two Titanic authors The Diamond Lens and Other Stories Fitz-James O’Brien Wooden and inflexible no longer, the crowd of manikins were now in full motion. The beadlike eyes turned, glittering, on all sides; the thin, wicked lips quivered with bad passions; the tiny hands sheathed and unsheathed the little swords and daggers. Fitz-James O’Brien capitalised on the success of his predecessor Edgar Allan Poe in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists. This collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre.
The Wreck of the Titan Morgan Robertson Foreword by Sam Leith John Rowland, a disgraced former Royal Navy lieutenant, has taken a job as a lowly deck hand aboard the largest ship ever to have sailed, the Titan. One night in deep fog, the Titan strikes a gigantic iceberg and sinks almost immediately. Written in 1898, fourteen years before the Titanic’s sinking, this novel has been hailed in equal measures as a prophetic work and the result of pure coincidence. Certainly the similarities are striking: two unsinkable ships steam ahead in treacherous conditions, carrying privileged passengers, with insufficient lifeboats aboard. Sam Leith’s foreword grapples with the nature of chance, and the surprises it can produce.
The Diamond Lens tells the tale of a lone scientist’s discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession in particular with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. The insights O’Brien gives us to the scientist’s uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadow the mad scientist familiar to science fiction readers in a multitude of works.
The Chase of the Golden Plate Jacques Futrelle The Chase of the Golden Plate was Jacques Futrelle’s first published book-length story featuring the arrogant, cocainetaking, large-headed Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen, nicknamed ‘The Thinking Machine’. A high-society fancy-dress party falls victim to a robbery – confusions of identity, long-held grudges, romance and honour all appear in the excitement that follows. Jacques Futrelle was an American journalist and detective-story writer and Van Dusen was his most famous detective character, appearing in a number of his works. Futrelle died in 1912 aboard the Titanic, after he had made sure that his wife had secured a space in a lifeboat.
Morgan Robertson (1861–1915) was a well-known American author of short stories and novels. He claimed to have invented the idea of the periscope for one of his novels.
Jacques Futrelle (1875–1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen.
Sam Leith, former literary editor for The Daily Telegraph, has recently published his novel The Coincidence Machine in which he examines the nature of coincidence and the effect of the invention of a machine which can manipulate probability.
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In What Was It? an invisible man is discovered by residents of a boarding house. Predating H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man by nearly four decades, the residents’ capture and investigation of the creature blends the fantastic with the scientific as they seek rational explanations for this extraordinary phenomenon.
‘I suppose I was mad. Every great genius is mad upon the subject in which he is greatest. The unsuccessful madman is disgraced, and called a lunatic.’
The Wondersmith is a macabre tale of an embittered toymaker who seeks revenge upon the society that has persecuted him by creating demonic mannequins (a precursor of robots) and imbuing them with life in order to slaughter the masses. The tale is a fantastic melodrama in which the dominating and cunning Wondersmith is offset by the unassuming and unlikely hero Solon the hunchback, who is in love with the villain’s daughter. Fitz-James O’Brien (1828–62) was an Irish-born American writer best known as a writer of Gothic short stories now seen as precursors of modern science fiction. Mar 2012 • 978 1 84391 358 5 • B format Pb • 120pp • £9.00
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Two Middle Eastern classics
Long Ago and Far Away: Eight Traditional Fairy Tales Foreword by Marina Warner Suddenly, fairy tales are everywhere. Up to ten major feature films have been made or are in production using as a basis traditional fairy tales that we think we are all familiar with. But are we? This collection reprints or retranslates the earliest versions of eight of those tales, and shows how they are sometimes very far from the stuff of cosy bedtime stories or jolly pantomimes. The stories include: The Little Mermaid Sleeping Beauty Cinderella
The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Foreword by Mohammad Shaheen Translated by Issa J. Boullata
Beauty and the Beast Jack and the Beanstalk Snow White Hansel and Gretel Little Red Riding Hood Author and scholar Marina Warner has taught and published widely in the genres of fiction, criticism and history. She is also an expert on myth, symbols and fairy tales. She is a Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex, where she teaches an undergraduate course Transformation of Fairytale. Apr 2012 • 978 1 84391 362 7 • B format Pb • 140pp • £10
‘The association of children and fairy stories is an accident of our domestic history. In recent times fairy-stories have usually been written or “adapted” for children. It is a dangerous process, even when it is necessary.’
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– J.R.R. Tolkien
As a child in pre-First-World-War Palestine, Jabra recalls daily life in Bethlehem and Jerusalem with pin-sharp observation and a vivid use of language. His writing is funny, moving and tender. His Christian family, his school friends and the eccentric characters of the surrounding streets all come to life, and Jabra’s love of the Arabic language comes through, even in translation: ‘Words glowed in my mind,’ he writes. ‘They glittered like gold and sparkled like jewels. I imagined myself walking on coloured silk carpets spread over the waves of a wondrous sea of dreams.’ Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was a Palestinian author from a Christian family, born in Bethlehem during the British Mandate. He was educated in Jerusalem and at Cambridge, and was a poet, novelist and translator. Mohammad Shaheen has been a professor of English literature at the University of Jordan since 1985. He is the author of many books, including E.M. Forster and the Politics of Imperialism, and has translated the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish into English. Apr 2012 • 978 1 84391 371 9 • B format Pb • 120pp • £8
Once Upon the Orient Wave: Milton and the Arab Muslim World Eid Abdallah Dahiyat John Milton’s poems Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are among the greatest pieces of writing in the English language. Like other writers of his time, Milton had only a sketchy idea of Islam and the Arab world, from travellers and linguists who had made the arduous journey to and from the Middle East. But buried in his works are signs that Milton had absorbed ideas and influences from Islam and Arab culture. Professor Dahiyat shows how from the Middle Ages, partly as an attempt to counteract Islam with Christianity, a wide range of writers and researchers spoke, read and wrote Arabic and published books. Dahiyat then shows how many different references there are to the Orient and Islam in Milton’s writings, and discusses the later response of Arab writers and scholars to Milton’s major works. Eid Abdallah Dahiyat is a Jordanian politician, critic and academic. He has taught at the University of Jordan, where he was vice-chairman. He was also head of Amman Private University and president of the University of Mutah. Apr 2012 • 978 1 84391 361 0 • B format Pb • 120pp • £9
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May 2012 Grandma Elmaleh’s Moroccan Cookbook Lisa Elmaleh Craig
A Discovery of New Worlds Bernard de Fontenelle Translated and introduced by Aphra Behn
It was a great temptation to title this book ‘All-purpose Ethnic Cooking’, because the cuisine of Mogador has been influenced by so many different worlds. It is fascinating to see how this charming microcosm-by-the-sea developed historically; the town’s colourful history helps explain the diversity of the recipes in Grandma Elmaleh’s repertoire.
Although over three hundred years old, Fontenelle’s dialogues in a garden over five nights are still a surprisingly painless way to learn about the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars, even though new planets were later discovered and modern science has filled out many details Fontenelle could not have known. This is no lecture, but a conversation with the cut and thrust of intelligent argument as the Marchioness challenges each of the astronomer’s assertions and requires him to explain the evidence.
For over fifty years Sarah Elmaleh, the Moroccan-Jewish mother of a large immigrant family in the US, cooked sumptuous meals for family and friends. Her unique blend of Jewish and Oriental cookery, derived from early years in the port town of Essaouira, Morocco, formerly known as Mogador, produced hundreds of recipes, most of which she kept in her head, until her granddaughter, Lisa Elmaleh Craig, sat her down and made her divulge her culinary secrets.
The five successive nights deal with: The Earth The Moon Other Planets The Stars Latest Discoveries
This charming book combines recipes, reminiscences and research with the author’s own line drawings and colour plates, to provide a verbal feast for the food-oriented reader as well as recipes ranging from a simple breakfast to a family feast.
Aphra Behn’s translation, one of the earliest, adds the feminine wit of a leading dramatist to Fontanelle’s work. Bernard de Fontenelle (1657–1757) was a French author. Having tried his hand at creating poetry, opera and allegory, Fontenelle suddenly broke through the literary and scientific ranks with Discovery of New Worlds. He was subsequently admitted to the prestigious French Academy.
All through her childhood, Lisa Elmaleh Craig watched her grandmother cook delicious food for her family and friends. When she grew up she felt these were too good to keep in the Elmaleh family, so she worked with her grandmother to write this book. Apr 2012 • 978 1 84391 363 4 • HB • 192pp • £16
Grandma Elmaleh’s Advice to All Who Read
Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the first English professional female writers, a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and, at one stage, a spy in the service of Charles II.
This Book: ‘Khellihum itfaishu’, which,
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translated from the Arabic, means ‘Let ’em have a good time’.
‘The general applause this little book has met with, both in France and England, made me attempt to translate it into English. The reputation of the author, the novelty of the subject in vulgar language and the author’s introducing a woman as one of the speakers in these five discourse were further motives for me to undertake this little work; for I thought an English woman might adventure to translate anything a French woman may be supposed to have spoken.’
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Bardell v Pickwick: A Dickens of a Case Percy Fitzgerald Foreword by Baroness Hale
Three Russian Dog Stories Chekhov, Saltykov, and Turgenev Translated by Anthony Briggs
When Samuel Pickwick uttered soothing words to Mrs Bardell in her time of need, he never dreamt that he would find himself in a court of law, in a breach of promise suit. As a parade of his friends did their best as witnesses to extricate him from the situation, not always successfully, the other side produced evidence that was manipulated by skilful lawyers to make a cast iron case for Pickwick’s guilt.
A delight for dog-lovers, with a passing interest for dog-haters, this collection is published for the first time in English, in a new translation. Turgenev’s Mumu is rescued from drowning by a mute serf, Gerasim, and quickly becomes his closest friend and comforter until Gerasim’s mistress intervenes with tragic consequences. Shchedrin’s Trezor is the perfect embodiment of canine fidelity, carrying out his duties to the letter, despite being chained up, badly treated and sometimes not even fed.
In this lawyerly but witty book, Fitzgerald treats Bardell v Pickwick as if it were a real case, analyses the tactics of the various lawyers and scrutinises the points of law Dickens made his fictional lawyers present.
Chekhov’s Kashtanka, when lost, is taken in by a circus clown and trained for an act in the ring. However, she prefers to return to her former abusive master, sitting in the audience at her first performance, rather than remain with her new caring, thoughtful owner.
Percy Fitzgerald (1834–1925) was an author, critic, painter and sculptor and a contributor to Dickens’ Household Words. Baroness Hale of Richmond (b. 1945) is a legal academic, barrister, family law judge and a Justice of the Supreme Court.
These stories have long been held in high esteem, tugging at the readers’ heartstrings. When Turgenev died in 1883 a wreath was sent to the grave of ‘the author of Moomoo’ by British Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician. Mikhail Saltykov (1826–89), better known by his pseudonym, Shchedrin, was a major Russian satirist of the nineteenth century.
There are two of us in the room, my dog and I … A frightful storm is raging out of doors.
Ivan Turgenev (1818–83) was a leading Russian novelist, shortstory writer and playwright.
The dog is sitting in front of me, and gazing
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straight into my eyes. And I, also, am looking him straight in the eye … It is two pairs of eyes exactly alike fixed on each other.
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Turgenev, The Dog
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June 2012 The Way of Muri Ilya Boyashov Translated by Amanda Love Darragh
Rilke in Paris Rainer Maria Rilke & Maurice Betz Translated by Will Stone
On his journey from his war-torn village, Muri the cat travels through Yugoslavia, Austria, Germany, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden, meeting on the way an unlikely – but helpful – group of creatures, from a sperm whale to a paraplegic mountaineer and a wandering Jew.
In 1902, the young German writer Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned to the city many times over the course of his life, by turns inspired and appalled by the high culture and low society, and his writings give a fascinating insight into Parisian art and culture in the last century.
This is no children’s book, but a witty exploration of the human condition through the people and objects Muri meets on his travels. Somewhere in the mix, Boyashov introduces us to two eminent professors, one from Cambridge, one from Geneva, who take opposite views on the question: Is man in a perpetual and aimless state of wandering or must he always have a goal in mind?
Paris was a lifelong source of inspiration for Rilke. Perhaps most significantly, the letters he wrote about it formed the basis of his prose masterpiece, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Much of this work despite its perennial popularity in French, German and Italian, has never before been translated into English.
The book is intended to be read on two levels – as a narrated story of real (fictional) characters and as an allegory. It has been compared with Sophie’s World.
This volume brings together a new translation of Rilke’s essay on poetry, Notes on the Melody of Things, and the first English translation of Rilke’s experiences in Paris as observed by his French translator, Maurice Betz.
Ilya Boyashov was born in Leningrad in 1961. His first stories were published in literature magazines in the early 1980s, and his collection of short-stories entitled Play Your Melody published in 1989, after which he was admitted to the Russian Writers’ Union.
Rainier Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is one of the great German writers. A master of both poetry and prose, he is probably best known for Duino Elegies, Letters to Orpheus and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
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Maurice Betz (1898–1946) was a writer and translator who worked closely with Rilke on the French translations of his works. Jun 2012 • 978 1 84391 369 6 • B format Pb • 120pp • £9
Winner of the Russian ‘National Bestseller’
‘His life was a perpetual flight before social
literary prize.
and human realities, towards an abstraction which is solitude ... and towards those superior states of consciousness which give access, in the midst of the most beautiful and the saddest landscapes of life, to the contemplation of death.’
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– Maurice Betz on Rilke
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2012 is Dickens’ Centenary Year: some of our Dickens titles. The Earth Turned Upside Down Jules Verne Translated by Sophie Lewis In one of his best-known books, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne described how a group of men in The Gun Club of Baltimore used a giant cannon to send a spacecraft to the moon. Now, in this sequel, the gun is brought into use again to achieve an equally ambitious aim – to tilt the earth’s axis so that the North Pole is displaced to the Tropics. The plotters believe there are limitless resources of coal at the North Pole and their cunning plan will allow them to exploit these resources to become rich. In spite of its disregard for anything approaching scientific plausibility, this enjoyable book has a modern resonance in a world in which conserving energy is increasingly important, and the dangers of climate change – one huge consequence if the Gun Club’s plot succeeds – are daily in the forefront of the news. Jules Verne is one of the most popular French novelists of all time. His tales of experiment and exploration were filled with the adventurous spirit of the nineteenth century, and brought him fame as an author for both adults and children, and acclaim as the father of modern science fiction. Among his best-known works are Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Jun 2012 • 978 1 84391 367 4 • B format Pb • 200pp • £12
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The Holly-Tree Inn
On theatre
Taken from the 1855 Christmas number of Household Words. A journeying gentleman finds himself snowed in at The Holly Tree Inn and, trapped for a week, resolves to entertain himself by recording the stories he hears from his fellow tenants. 978 1 84391 193 8 144 pp • £7.99
Dickens’ passion for theatre is often overlooked. For large swathes of Victorian society, theatre was a way of life and a hub of community – this collection is an evocative snapshot of this world from one of the age’s greatest storytellers. ‘By 1863, Dickens had also made a success of performing his own works on the stage, although, as Pete Orford points out in his succinct introduction, they had already been adapted for theatrical performance many times, “sometimes before the final chapters of the books themselves had been written”. On theatre is an entertaining reminder that the fascination was mutual.’ – Times Literary Supplement 978 1 84391 617 8 112 pp • £7.99.
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Account of trip to Northumberland undertaken by Dickens along with his close friend Wilkie Collins: a meditation on the pleasures of bachelor bonding and an example of collaborative journalism at its best. 978 1 84391 205 7 152 pp • £7.99
The Seven Poor Travellers At Watts’ Charity, a sparse yet cosy almshouse, seven travellers share stories following a hearty Christmas Eve dinner. Full of turkey, beef and hot wassail, they recount tales of brave soldiers, scheming blackmailers, naive lovers and charming children in this intriguing collection of holiday stories. 978 1 84391 206 4 152 pp • £7.99
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Recent Bestsellers
Bestsellers
Comedy in a Minor Key Hans Keilson, translated by Damion Searls
Journeys Stefan Zweig, translated by Will Stone
On london Charles Dickens, edited by Pete Orford
Wim and Marie, an ordinary Dutch couple, have been hiding Nico, a Jewish man, for many months during the occupation – but Nico becomes ill and dies leaving them to find a way to dispose of the corpse. This extraordinary and harrowing tale examines the dark and desperate humour that co-exists with moments or terror.
The first English translation of Zweig’s writings on his travels in Europe, this collection represents a lifetime’s observations. It can be dipped into or savoured at length, and paints a rich and sensitive picture of Europe before the Second World War.
Dickens’ London is a thing of legend. The most splendid of all his characters, the city was the subject of scrupulous research: Dickens spent several hours a day exploring its streets and inhabitants. The pieces collected here reveal London to be the primary inspiration for one of the geniuses of English literature.
‘Hans Keilson may be the greatest novelist you’ve never heard of.’ – Observer 978 1 84391 458 7 B format Pb • 120pp • £9.99
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‘...selected and translated by Will Stone, whose versions match Zweig’s writings in the luminosity of their prose’ – Times Literary Supplement 978 1 84391 458 7 B format Pb • 128pp • £7.99
On paris Ernest Hemingway Written for The Toronto Star between 1920 and 1924, this selection of energetic pieces from Hemingway sees the author focus his gaze on Paris. Writing with characteristic verve, the author tackles such topics as ‘Living on $1,000 a year in Paris’, ‘American bohemians in Paris’ and ‘Parisian boorishness’.
Carlyle’s House Virginia Woolf, edited by David Bradshaw, foreword by Doris Lessing
No Man’s Land Graham Greene, edited by James Sexton, foreword by David Lodge
Hailed by Doris Lessing as ‘five-finger exercises for future excellence’, Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches is the first publication of one of Virginia Woolf’s early notebooks – seven striking sketches unearthed from a collection of private papers.
‘Civilian’ Brown appears to be enjoying a short vacation in the Harz Mountains, within striking distance of the Iron Curtain. One night he crosses into the Russian zone, claiming to be drawn to a site of Catholic pilgrimage and finds himself arrested and interrogated. No Man’s Land, a profound chilling tale of espionage, superstition and betrayal, bears all the hallmarks of Greene’s most famous works.
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‘Aficionados will recognise the nascent pith and verve of his writing, but these articles represent so much more than the baby steps of a future literary giant; they are the remnants of a lost generation of foreign reporting.’ – New Statesman
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‘In such essays, London is not just a workaday place, but the scene of wonders... As Pete Orford says in his helpful introduction to this brief yet evocative selection, “London was his muse.”’ – Guardian
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‘An indispensable addition to the library of anyone interested in one of the 20th century’s greatest novelists.’ – Guardian
Directions to Servants Jonathan Swift, foreword by Colm Tóibín Cooks brushing their hair in the stew; whole cohorts of servants watching and laughing as people slip over on frozen contents of chambers pots, tipped outdoors on frosty nights – Swift’s satire, here taking the form of a handbook of manners, is packed with vivid and hilarious images of mischievous, lazy and downright larcenous servants. ‘Directions to Servants strikes back at the master-servant dependency with an amusing blend of cynical parody and puerile insolence.’ – The Independent 978 1 84391 062 6 B format Pb • 88pp • £6.99
The Squabble Nikolai Gogol, translated by Hugh Aplin, foreword by Patrick McCabe Neighbours Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich are the very greatest of friends, yet one day they begin a foolish quarrel… For the people of Mirgorod, their battle takes on universal significance and becomes a lawsuit that is set to run for years and years. In this sublime work of tragicomedy, Gogol brilliantly ridicules our preoccupation with the petty and reveals life as something really rather absurd. ‘A classic demonstration of the mastery of both hyperbole and understatement that made Gogol a unique and irreplaceable writer.’ – Kirkus 978 1 84391 013 8 B format Pb • 144pp • £6.99
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Housman, A.E. Hugo, Victor Huxley, Aldous Huysmans, Joris-Karl James, Henry James, Henry James, Henry Jerome, Jerome K. Jerome, Jerome K. Johnson, Alexandra Kafka, Franz Kafka, Franz Keats, John Kennedy, Richard Keilson, Hans Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Klimaszewski, Melisa Kuzmin, Mikhail La Fontaine, Jean de Lamb, Charles Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, D.H. Lehmann, Rosamond Leopardi, Giacomo Leskov, Nikolai Levi, Carlo Levi, Carlo London, Jack London, Jack London, Jack Machiavelli, Nicolò Malraux, André Mann, Klaus Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Masters, Edgar Lee Maupassant, Guy de Mayakovsky, Vladimir Mayhew, Henry
A Shropshire Lad The Last Day of a Condemned Man After the Fireworks With the Flow In The Cage The Lesson of the Master The Diary of a Man of Fifty The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow On the art of making up one’s mind A Brief History of Diaries: From Pepys to Blogs The Trial Metamorphosis Fugitive Poems A Boy at the Hogarth Press Comedy in a Minor Key Something of Myself: An Autobiography Captains Courageous Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins Wings Fables Essays of Elia The Fox Daughters of the Vicar Wintry Peacock The Gipsy’s Baby Thoughts Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Words are Stones Essays on India Before Adam The Scarlet Plague The People of the Abyss Life of Castruccio Castracani The Way of the Kings Alexander Prelude In a German Pension Spoon River Anthology Butterball My Discovery of America Voices of Victorian London: In Sickness and Health
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Saki Sand, George Sartre, Jean-Paul Schiller, Friedrich von Sciascia, Leonardo Scott, Walter Shaw, Bernard Shaw, Bernard Shelley, Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley, P.B. Shelston, Alan Stafford, Fiona Starobinets, Anna Stendhal Stendhal Stendhal Swift, Rebecca Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Storm, Theodor Svevo, Italo Swift, Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Thackeray, W.M. Thomas, Jerry Thomas, Jerry Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Leo Twain, Mark Twain, Mark Verga, Giovanni Verne, Jules Voltaire Von Kleist, Heinrich
A Shot in the Dark The Devil’s Pool The Wall The Ghost-seer A Simple Story The Highland Widow The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God On war Transformation The Pilgrims Zastrozzi Brief Lives: Elizabeth Gaskell Brief Lives: Jane Austen An Awkward Age (hb) Letters to Pauline Memoirs of an Egotist On love Poetic Lives: Dickinson Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Story of a Lie The Lake of the Bees A Perfect Hoax Directions to Servants Polite Conversation Boyhood Days Farewell Song Rebecca and Rowena How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant’s Companion (hb) How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant’s Companion (pb) The Death of Ivan Ilyich The Forged Coupon A Confession The Diary of Adam and Eve Tom Sawyer, Detective Life in the Country A Fantasy of Dr Ox Memoirs of the life of Monsieur de Voltaire The Marquise of O—
Jeremy Dyson Victoria Glendinning Justin Cartwright Martin Jarvis Paul Bailey Stuart Kelly Colm Tóibín
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Wedekind, Frank Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith Wilde, Oscar Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Wright, Elizabeth Wren, Jenny Zamyatin, Yevgeny Zola, Emile Zola, Emile Zweig, Stefan
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