ONEWORLD CLASSICS
ONEWORLD CLASSICS FRÜHJAHR 2011
Letter from the Publisher
Dear Oneworld Classics Reader, By the end of 2010, our classics list will include almost a hundred and fifty titles. In addition to these, we have made available again dozens of groundbreaking works originally published by John Calder under our new Calder Collection imprint, and successfully launched the Overture Opera Guide series in association with English National Opera. The new season will see the publication of masterpieces of international literature such as The Great Gatsby, Wilhelm Meister and Moby Dick, alongside new translations of Russian and Italian classics, including Tolstoy’s Hadji Murat, Bulgakov’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook and Dante’s Purgatory. As our list grows in scope and ambition, our attention to unjustly neglected authors remains undiminished, and we are delighted to introduce to our programme the works of Sergei Dovlatov and Antonia Pozzi. I hope you will enjoy our selection and continue to support our list,
Alessandro Gallenzi Publisher – Oneworld Classics
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Frühjahr 2011 1
How the Two Ivans Quarrelled and Other Russian Comic Stories
Nikolai Gogol Translated by Guy Daniels • New edition of one of the funniest and most famous works by Russian master storyteller Nikolai Gogol, the author of Dead Souls • Includes stories by Saltykov-Shchedrin, Krylov and Tolstoy that are not available in any other books currently in print
The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol’s humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming
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February 2011 Paperback 160 pp. € 9,95 9781847491732
One of the leading figures in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol (1809–52) is best known for his satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls, and humorous plays and short stories such as The Government Inspector and The Overcoat, written in a highly original and often experimental style.
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details and turns of phrase suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own. The second story, Ivan Krylov’s Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather, has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The two stories by the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin are satirical attacks on the inability of civil servants to cope with real life, and on Russia’s autocracy. The final story, Tolstoy’s Ivan the Fool, is arguably the most celebrated comic story by the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Together, they represent some of Russia’s finest comic writing before the twentieth century.
“A fantastic, self-parodic, mock-heroic folk tale.” Patrick McCabe
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2 Frühjahr 2011
By F. Scott Fitzgerald Considered one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was the author of various novels and short stories chronicling life in the US during the Roaring Twenties.
The Great Gatsby • Lavishly produced edition printed on Arctic paper with flaps • Contains pictures and an extensive apparatus on Fitzgerald’s life and works
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby’s impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy. Regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Details February 2011 Paperback 256 pp. € 8,95 9781847491749 Fiction English Literature
“Jazz Age”, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
“It seems to me the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.” TS Eliot
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Frühjahr 2011 3 “[He] was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.” From The New York Times obituary
Tender is the Night • Lavishly produced edition printed on Arctic paper with flaps • Contains pictures and an extensive apparatus on Fitzgerald’s life and works
While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star Rosemary Hoyt. Her arrival causes a stir in their social circle and exposes the cracks in their fragile marriage. As their relationship unravels, the glimpses of their troubled past emerge, and a series of disturbing events unfolds. Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a poignant and sensitive account of personal tragedy and disillusionment. Details April 2011 Paperback 320 pp. € 8,95 9781847491800 Fiction English Literature
“Gatsby was a tour de force, but this is a confession of faith.” Fitzgerald comment on Tender is the Night
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4 Frühjahr 2011
Directions to Servants Jonathan Swift • New edition of one of the most popular and acclaimed works by master Irish satirist Jonathan Swift • I ncludes pictures and an extensive section on Swift’s life and works
A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at master-servant relations. Written towards the end of his writing career, this pamphlet – paired here with Polite Conversation, another work often attributed to the Dean – shows Swift at his witty and mischievous best. Details
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February 2011 Paperback 144 pp. € 9,95 9781847491756
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer of prose, poetry, essays and political pamphlets, and is probably the best-known satirist in the English Language.
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“A central document in the long, comic and sly history of Irish disrespect.” Colm Tóibín Also by Jonathan Swift:
Gulliver’s Travels (ISBN 9781847490889, 5 8,95) The Benefit of Farting (ISBN 9781847490315, 5 12,95)
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Frühjahr 2011 5
Purgatory Dante Alighieri Translated by J.G. Nichols • New verse translation by acclaimed prizewinning translator J.G. Nichols • Includes facing Italian text with extensive notes relating to both the original and the translation, and an introduction to each canto • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Dante’s life and works
Describing Dante’s second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in The Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante’s ascent of Mount Purgatory towards Paradise Details
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March 2011 Paperback 160 pp. € 11,95 9781847491763
Born in Florence, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is considered to be the father of Italian poetry and one of the greatest influences in world literature. His masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is the zenith of medieval knowledge and a paragon of poetic imagination. Its first part, Inferno, remains one of the most popular books of all
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remains fraught with obstacles, not least the burden of his own mortality and his human passions. Purgatory is presented here in a new verse translation by acclaimed poet and prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, which perfectly captures the sense of elegy and melancholy that permeates this work. Also included are the original Italian text, extensive notes, illustrations and a critical apparatus focusing on Dante’s life and works.
“Dante is my spiritual food.” James Joyce
Also by Dante Alighieri:
Inferno (ISBN 9781847491398, 5 12,95) Rime (ISBN 9781847490773, 5 16,95)
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6 Frühjahr 2011
By Mikhail Bulgakov Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century and is most famous for The Master and Margarita.
A Young Doctor’s Notebook Translated by Hugh Aplin • Brand-New translation • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Bulgakov’s life and works
In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author’s own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor’s turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection represents some of Bulgakov’s most personal and Details March 2011 Paperback 160 pp. € 9,95 9781847491770
insightful observations on youth, isolation and progress.
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Also by Mikhail Bulgakov:
Diaboliad and Other Stories (ISBN 9781847491534, 5 9,95) The Master and Margarita (ISBN 9781847490148, 5 11,95) The Life of Monsieur de Molière (ISBN 9781847491275, 5 11,95)
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Frühjahr 2011 7 “Bulgakov was not merely a brilliant observer of what was going on around him, but had an uncanny ability to pick out the particular manifestations of folly and discord which would set the tone of the era to follow.” The Guardian
The Fatal Eggs Translated by Roger Cockrell • Only single-volume edition available in the UK • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Bulgakov’s life and works
Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country’s poultry stocks, Persikov’s discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand… Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin’s rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, Details June 2011 Paperback 144 pp. € 9,95 9781847491848
brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge.
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“The exuberance of it… has to enliven the reader, and make us laugh.” Doris Lessing
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8 Frühjahr 2011
The Suitcase Sergei Dovlatov Translated by Antonina W. Bouis • One of the most important writers of twentiethcentury Russian literature • Published for the first time in the UK
Several years after emigrating from the USSR, the author discovers the battered suitcase he had brought with him gathering dust at the back of a wardrobe. As he opens the suitcase, the seemingly undistinguished items he finds inside take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired them. A poplin shirt evokes the bittersweet story of courtship and marriage, a pair of boots calls up the hilarious conclusion to an Details
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official banquet, two pea-green crepe socks bring back
March 2011 Paperback 250 pp. € 9,95 9781847491787
Born to an Armenian mother and a Jewish father, Sergei Dovlatov (1941–90) grew up in Leningrad. Because of his writings, which he could not publish in Russia, he was persecuted by the authorities, and ultimately forced into exile in the US, where he developed his talent as a comic writer. Since his death in 1990, Dovlatov has become one of the most popular and widely read authors in Russia.
memories of his partly successful attempt to become
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a black-market racketeer, while a double-breasted suit reminds him of when he was approached by the KGB to spy on a Swedish writer. Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov’s characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The Suitcase is a profoundly human, delightfully ironic novel from one of the finest satirists of the twentieth century.
“One wishes that he’d lived longer, been published sooner, given us more.” Francine Prose
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Frühjahr 2011 9
Hadji Murat Leo Tolstoy Translated by Kyril Zinovieff and Jenny Hughes • New translation of the last major piece of fiction by one of the most popular authors of all time • Only single-volume edition available in the UK • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Tolstoy’s life and works
Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Chechen struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling Imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who accept him but never put their trust in him – and so Murat must find another way to end the struggle.
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April 2011 Paperback 192 pp. € 9,95 9781847491794
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) is regarded by some as the greatest novelist of all time. With such masterpieces as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he influenced generations of writers and changed the course of world literature.
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Tolstoy knew as he was writing this, his last work of fiction, that it would not be published in his lifetime, and so gave an uncompromising portrayal of the Russians’ faults and the nature of the rebels’ struggle. In the process, he shows a mastery of style and an understanding of Chechnya that still carries great resonance today.
“My personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world.” Harold Bloom
Also by Leo Tolstoy:
Anna Karenina (ISBN 9781847490599, 5 13,95) Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (ISBN 9781847491428, 5 11,95) Three Novellas (ISBN 9781847491251, 5 9,95)
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10 Frühjahr 2011
Plays • Vol.1 Luigi Pirandello Translated by Robert Rietti • First volume of the only complete collection of Pirandello’s plays in English
• Includes pieces previously untranslated into English
This is the first of three volumes collecting the complete plays of Luigi Pirandello, one of the foremost playwrights and fiction writers of the twentieth century, and the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. Edited by actor and translator Robert Rietti, this volume contains some of Pirandello’s most famous plays, including Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Each in His Own Way and The Life That I Gave You, as well as several of his lesser-known works Details
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for the stage, some of which are translated into English
April 2011 Paperback 540 pp. € 16,95 9781847491442
Born in Sicily, Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) studied as a philologist before becoming an acclaimed writer of both drama and fiction. One of the most innovative and influential playwrights of the last century, he is best known for his comic masterpiece Six Characters in Search of an Author, and was the winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.
for the first time.
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Preoccupied with the nature of truth and delusion, and treading dangerously on the borderline between sanity and madness, Pirandello’s plays are a daring exploration of human actions and the dark motives lying behind them, and the culmination of the naturalistic school of theatre inaugurated by authors such as Ibsen and Chekhov.
“Something close to classical tragedy that evokes our primal fears.” The Guardian
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Frühjahr 2011 11
Queen of Spades and Other Stories
Alexander Pushkin Translated by Paul Debreczeny • New edition of one of the most popular works by Pushkin • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Pushkin’s life
This collection of Pushkin’s shorter fiction begins with The Queen of Spades, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian literature. The young Hermann, while watching some friends gambling, hears a rumour of how an officer’s grandmother is always able to predict the three winning cards in a game. Hermann gradually becomes obsessed with the old woman and her seemingly mystical powers, and seeks to extract the Details
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May 2011 Paperback 352 pp. € 9,95 9781847491817
Alexander Pushkin (1799– 1837) was a novelist, dramatist and poet, penning such influential works as Eugene Onegin and Boris Godunov. He is now considered the father of modern Russian literature.
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secret from her at any cost. This volume, part of a new series of the complete works of Pushkin in English, also includes Dubrovsky, the story of a man’s desire to avenge himself after his land is unjustly taken from him by an aristocrat; Peter the Great’s Negro, a tale inspired by Pushkin’s maternal grandfather; and the unfinished story Egyptian Nights, a meditation on poetry and the poet. Together, they represent some of the most striking and enduring of Pushkin’s prose fiction.
“When asked for a handful of poetic geniuses of my heart and choice, I would never omit Pushkin’s name.”
Thomas Mann
Also by Alexander Pushkin:
Boris Godunov and Little Tragedies (ISBN 9781847491473, 5 12,95) Eugene Onegin (ISBN 9781847491602, 5 11,95) Ruslan and Lyudmila (ISBN 9781847491305, 5 11,95)
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12 Frühjahr 2011
The Sunday of Life Raymond Queneau Translated by Barbara Wright • New edition of one of the most important novels by the acclaimed author of Exercises in Style • Only edition in print in the UK
When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she’s going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Brû, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he know that he will have to contend with disgruntled in-laws, eccentric locals, a vulgar and cunning wife, a shifty career in fortunetelling, the approaching threat of war with Germany and the mysteries of Parisian public transport. With a cast of eccentric characters, amusing incidents Details
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and an uplifting tone, The Sunday of Life – its title
May 2011 Paperback 192 pp. € 9,95 9781847491824
Raymond Queneau (1903-76) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician. He is best remembered for Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro.
playfully alluding to Hegel’s theory of history – is
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a scintillating novel which showcases Queneau’s trademark punning, sly wit and delight in the absurdity of people and situations.
“A very funny book with great charm.” The Times
Also by Raymond Queneau
Exercises in Style (ISBN 9781847490735, 5 9,95) The Flight of Icarus (ISBN 9781847491022, 5 11,95) We Always Treat Women too Well (ISBN 9781847491633, 5 9,95)
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Moby Dick Herman Melville • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Melville’s life and works
When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab’s whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master’s obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets. With some sinister crew members in their midst and the hazardous conditions of the sea to contend with, the expedition becomes increasingly dangerous the closer it gets to its quarry. One of the great American novels, if not even the greatest, Moby Dick epically combines rip-roaring Details
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May 2011 Paperback 704 pp. € 11,95 9781847491831
Now considered one of America’s greatest and most influential authors, Herman Melville (1819–91) wrote novels and travelogues inspired by his experiences in the merchant navy – with Moby Dick and Billy Budd generally regarded as his masterpieces.
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adventure, a meticulously realistic portrayal of the whaling trade and a profound philosophical disquisition on the nature of good and evil.
“Strange, original and gripping.” William Somerset Maugham
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14 Frühjahr 2011
Poems Antonia Pozzi Translated by Peter Robinson • Only edition available in the UK • Facing Italian text
After her tragical death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi’s poems – which she had been secretly writing for years – were brought to light and became the object of great critical attention, going through several editions in Italy and being translated into all the major European languages. Since then, her reputation has risen steadily, and she is now considered one of the greatest Italian poets of the twentieth century. Acclaimed for the terseness and simplicity of her
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June 2011 Paperback 144 pp. € 11,95 9781847491855
At the end of a short and tragic life, Antonia Pozzi (1912–38) left an unpublished collection of just under a hundred poems, a legacy that has secured her place as one of the most original voices in twentieth-century Italian literature.
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language, her poems show an acute power of observation and deep psychological introspection, revealing a mind akin to Emily Dickinson’s and Sylvia Plath’s, but also a unique and unmistakeably original voice. This new version by prize-winning poet and translator Peter Robinson perfectly renders the delicate undertones and that sense of longing which is such a distinctive feature of Pozzi’s poetry.
“Purity of sound and precision of imagery were her natural gifts.” Eugenio Montale
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Wilhelm Meister Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated by H.M. Waidson • O nly edition in print in the English-speaking world of the complete Wilhelm Meister (this volume includes Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Apprenticeship and Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Travel) • Includes pictures and an extensive section on Goethe’s life and works
Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant’s son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to
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June 2011 Paperback 640 pp. € 16,95 9781847490513
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a German polymath whose works spanned the fields of literature, theology and science. He is best known for his drama Faust, and was a key figure in nineteenth-century German literature.
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negotiate love, desire and the need to face up to his own past and responsibilities. A landmark in the history of European literature, Goethe’s novel is not only one of the key works of Weimar Classicism and the prototype for the Bildungs roman genre, but also a timeless tale of coming into one’s own and a fascinating portrayal of the lateeighteenth-century theatre world.
“One of the most influential literary works of the early nineteenth century.” The Independent
Also by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
Elective Affinities (ISBN 9781847490988, 5 11,95) The Sorrows of Young Werther (ISBN 9781847491572, 5 9,95)
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English and American Literature
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490087
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490926
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847491367
Jane Austen’s classic tale of matchmaking, considered by many to be her crowning achievement.
An entertaining collection of Austen’s juvenilia which demonstrates the author’s burgeoning wit and imagination.
Jane Austen’s 1814 follow-up to Pride and Prejudice, a timeless story abounding in wit, flirtation and romantic intrigue.
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847491350
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490797
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490018
A parody of the Gothic genre, as well as a timeless comedy of manners.
Austen’s last completed novel, an unforgettable account of the dilemmas facing young women in the nineteenth century.
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490469
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490704
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490001
From the author of The Devil’s Dictionary, a seamless, almost folk-tale-like masterpiece.
An influential coming-of-age story, Jane Eyre is one of the most popular English novels ever written.
The story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the sense of propriety and romantic passion.
Jane Austen’s timeless love story, one of the most cherished classics of English literature.
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PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490025
PB • € 13,95 • 9781847490209
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490094
Emily Brontë’s masterpiece, one of the most haunting love stories in the canon of English literature.
Chaucer’s greatest work in a new modern adaptation by acclaimed translator Christopher Lauer.
A classic tale of intrigue and a precursor to the genre of detective fiction.
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847491244
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490896
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490124
A tale of love, madness and redemption, and the first bestselling Victorian sensation novel.
Conrad’s masterpiece, a stylistically bold examination of the powers of the subconscious and Western imperialism.
The classic tale of a castaway, arguably the very first English novel.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490179 The most ambitious and vivid narrative of nineteenth-century realism ever written.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491312
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490049
James De Mille’s rediscovered masterpiece, a pioneering work of the science-fiction genre.
Dickens’s great coming-of-age tale, and also one of his most personal and popular novels.
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PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491411 A triumph of biting satire and moving drama in what is perhaps Dickens’s most polemical novel.
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PB • € 8,95 • 9781847491015
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491381
A Victorian supernatural classic, written in collaboration with Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins.
Ford Madox Ford’s masterpiece, charting the disintegration of two loveless, adultery-ridden relationships.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490063
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491343
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490582
A rediscovered classic on the struggles of life at sea, which was banned for over fifty years.
A poignant, evocative examination of the maritime profession and life as an outcast.
One of America’s literary landmarks, a tale of adultery and revenge in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490070
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490056
An exuberant and profound play by the Beat master, recently rediscovered in manuscript form.
Lawrence’s preferred, unexpurgated version of Women in Love, with a radically different ending.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490964 One of Lawrence’s finest novellas, a compelling study of power and authority and realistic portrait of wartime England.
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PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491626
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491190
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490193
A classic Lawrence novel of sensual awakening and the yearning for freedom.
First paperback edition of an early, radically different version of Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers.
The second version of Lady Chatterley’s Lover, written in 1927 but unpublished in Lawrence’s lifetime.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491206
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490360
PB • € 16,95 • 9781847490490 Unique collection of D.H. Lawrence’s letters, edited by James T. Boulton.
One of Miller’s finest achievements, describing some of the crucial years in his personal saga.
A racy account of Miller’s early bohemian life in Paris, showcasing his innovative style.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491053
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491695
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490544
An ironic guide to writing bad verse, essential reading for any budding writer wishing to avoid ridicule.
A Powys’s collection of essays, combining poignancy and sincerity with irony and subversiveness.
A masterpiece of Gothic fiction, depicting the heroic struggle of love in the face of malice and deceit.
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PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490230
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490131
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490261
Arguably the first science-fiction novel, a classic fable about the pursuit of knowledge and man’s inherent monstrosity.
Stevenson’s most famous work, a captivating coming-of-age story for young and old.
One of the all-time horror classics, a dark exploration of sexuality, mythology and the supernatural.
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490889 Swift’s masterpiece of comedy and imagination, a merciless satire on Western society and human nature.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491671
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490421
An extraordinary autobiographical account about a junky’s life, and an honest, raunchy, eye-opening trip through hell.
Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, the masterpiece of one of Britain’s greatest post-war novelists.
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847491480
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490902
PB • € 8,95 • 9781847490186
The story of Huck Finn and his companion, the slave Jim, one of the greatest American novels.
A brilliant and witty collection of Twain’s pieces inspired by the biblical story of Adam and Eve.
Wilde’s only novel, a masterful tale about appearance, reality and the ultimate burden of conscience.
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PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491374
PB • € 16,95 • 9781847491527
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490780
A unique selection of Yeats’s best poetry, tracing the entire development of his verse.
A volume collecting some of Antonin Artaud’s most significant writings on theatre and the arts.
Artaud’s masterpiece and one of the founding texts of drama theory.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491497
PB • € 13,95 • 9781847490506
Four fascinating pieces on the hallucinogenic experience by two of the greatest nineteenth-century French poets.
Baudelaire’s seminal collection of prose poems, one of the founding texts of literary modernism.
A seminal guide, in verse, to the codes and rules for good versification. Dual text.
PB • € 16,95 • 9781847491183
PB • € 16,95 • 9781847490414
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491541
Céline’s masterly follow-up to his landmark novel, Journey to the End of the Night.
The tragical tale of an impossible love and the portrait of a world-weary Romantic hero from a master of French literature.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490933
Céline’s visionary masterpiece, and a turning point in world literature.
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French Literature
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491640
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490520
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490667
A priceless historical document and a fine example of early autobiographical writing.
An evocative story of class and violence by one of the leaders of the Nouveau Roman school.
A novel of love, alienation and obsession, famously adapted for the screen by Tony Richardson.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491435
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491176
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490766
One of the greatest works of nineteenthcentury realist fiction, in a new translation by Christopher Moncrieff.
The diary of a prisoner’s final day before execution, an eloquent plea for compassion.
A masterpiece of psychological insight and a minutely observed social satire by the great short-story writer.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490735
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491688
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491022
Barbara Wright’s acclaimed translation of Queneau’s classic virtuoso set of themes and variations.
Roussel’s ground-breaking text, making ample use of wordplay, automatic writing and allusion.
A hilarious novel, parodying various genres, one of the best literary jokes in modern literature.
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PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491633
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490940
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490636
Queneau’s bawdiest work, containing all of its author’s hallmarks: wit, stylistic innovation and formal playfulness.
Robbe-Grillet’s first published novel, an avant-garde thriller which laid the foundations for the Nouveau Roman.
A wartime novel on the quest for memory and meaning in a demolished city.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490445
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491107
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490711
Robbe-Grillet’s most famous work, a puzzling and obsessively minute depiction of jealousy set in colonial Africa.
A Nouveau Roman classic, a mysterious, unsettling tale of crime and memory on a secluded island.
A pioneering avant-garde work, an entertaining catalogue of improbable inventions and mad discoveries.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491510
PB • € 20,95 • 9781847490568
A groundbreaking work portraying the savagery of war, and a masterpiece of stylistic innovation.
A groundbreaking biography of the great composer by one of France’s most important nineteenth-century novelists.
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491121 A seminal piece of travel writing, a brilliant and anecdotal guide to the Midi of France.
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German Literature
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491299
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490483
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490858
A broad selection of Zola’s short fiction, describing everyday aspects of human existence in a variety of styles.
The eleventh Rougon-Macquart novel, a compelling portrayal of the proliferation of department stores in Paris.
A tense, proto-modernist account of madness, based on the real life of the Romantic poet Lenz.
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490803
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490742
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490827
A classic tale of a young man’s pact with the Devil, a cautionary tale for young and old.
Based on a true story, a classic precursor of the murder-mystery genre, with both Gothic and realist associations.
Eichendorff’s prose masterpiece – a picaresque, Romantic account of the wanderings of a young man.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490988
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491572
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491084
An early model for the modern novel, using scientific imagery to probe the nature of adultery and relationships.
The prototype for many later Romantic works, Goethe’s classic is a timeless masterpiece of world literature.
An ingenious cautionary novella which shrewdly dissects the social dynamics of rural life.
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PB • € 13,95 • 9781847490841
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490995
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490254
An influential macabre masterpiece of German literature, recounting a monk’s fantastical journey towards atonement.
A classic tale which combines the supernatural with surreal comedy, by the master of the genre.
An open letter to the author’s father, a classic account of conflict between father and son.
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490865
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490759
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491077
A vivid and imaginative depiction of a day in the life of the Austrian composer.
The tale of an old man reminiscing about his youth and love. Also contains Curator Carsten and Viola Tricolor.
Inspired by a real-life event and Shakespeare’s play, a bitter-sweet tragedy about two young lovers in Switzerland.
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491398
PB • € 16,95 • 9781847490773
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491589
Dante’s masterpiece in a new verse translation by prize-winning poet and translator J.G. Nichols. Dual text.
New translation and only edition in print of Dante’s canzoniere. Dual text.
An invaluable record of Constantinople as it used to be in the nineteenth-century.
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Italian Literature
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490438
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490117
PB • € 16,95 • 9781847490575
The complete poems by the enfant terrible of Italian literature. Dual text.
Extensive selection from Belli’s poetical monument to the people of nineteenthcentury Rome. Dual text.
Boccaccio’s masterpiece in a new version by prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490919
PB • € 13,95 • 9781847491404
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490971
Dante’s earliest biography by the author of the Decameron. Includes other early accounts of Dante’s life.
Only edition available in English of Cavalcanti’s complete poems, in a new translation by Anthony Mortimer.
A selection from the poetry of one of the most famous and popular poets in Italian literature. Dual text.
PB • € 13,95 • 9781847490162 Leopardi’s poetical masterpiece, an unsurpassed anatomy of man’s unhappiness on earth. Dual text.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491114
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491282
Machiavelli’s classic study of power and politics, in a new version by prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols.
Only edition in print of the masterpiece of Italian decadent literature in a new version by acclaimed translator Lawrence Venuti.
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Russian Literature
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PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491534
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490148
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491275
A collection of stories offering a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita.
The crowning achievement of one of the greatest Russian writers, in a new translation by Hugh Aplin.
Bulgakov’s eccentric take on the life of a fellow writer, a dazzling blend of biography and novelistic imagination.
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490476
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491046
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490032
The zenith of Bunin’s work and one of the most important texts to come out of twentieth-century Russia.
Bunin’s first published novel, a bleak and uncompromising portrayal of rural life in south-west Russia.
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490810
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847490452
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491503
The first of Dostoevsky’s great novels, presented here in a new translation by Ignat Avsey.
One of Dostoesvky’s most enduringly popular novels, in a new translation by Ignat Avsey.
A collection of Chekhov’s short stories, ranging from humorous sketches to psychological pieces.
Chekhov’s diary of his journey to Sakhalin, an exposé of the Tsarist system of penal servitude.
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PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491619 A pivotal work in the development of modern literature, showcasing the best of Dostoevsky’s dry humour.
PB • € 12,95 • 9781847491473
Russian Literature
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490643
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491213
An early document of some of Dostoevsky’s favourite ideas, and an example of his acid journalistic style.
Lermontov’s greatest work, a seminal study of contemporary society and nihilism. Includes the fragment Princess Ligovskaya.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491602
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491305
A new translation by Roger Clarke of Pushkin’s dramatic masterpiece and his celebrated Little Tragedies.
A darkly humorous story of love, betrayal and cynicism, Pushkin’s novel in verse is the founding text of Russian literature.
Only edition in print of Pushkin’s early masterpiece, an ingenious retelling of Russian folklore. Dual text.
PB • € 13,95 • 9781847490599
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491428
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491459
One of the most perfect, enduring novels of all time, in Kyril Zinovieff’s acclaimed new translation.
New translation of Tolstoy’s first published book, recounting his early life up to his university days.
A new translation of Turgenev’s masterpiece, one of the first modern novels of Russian literature.”
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Other Literatures
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847491251
A collection of Tolstoy’s shorter prose works which includes The Devil, Family Happiness and A Landowner’s Morning.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491596 Only edition in print of Petrarch’s masterly dissection of his spiritual crisis, a pioneering example of the autobiographical genre.
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PB • € 16,95 • 9781847491466 Cervantes’s enduringly popular picaresque novel, in a brilliant new translation by Tom Lathrop.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847490100 A new translation of Erasmus’s masterpiece, in which the goddess Folly climbs onto the pulpit and vindicates herself.
PB • € 11,95 • 9781847491169
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490698
Andrew Brown’s racy new translation of Petronius’s only surviving novel, one of the founding works of Western literature.
Hedayat’s most celebrated work, an unconventional love story full of forceful imagery and nightmarish visions.
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490551
PB • € 9,95 • 9781847490834
A new translation and the only edition in print of a collection of stories from the master of Iranian modern literature.
An astute comedy of manners and a sharp satire on the corruption of rural officials and the politics of love and seduction.
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