CLASSICS

'With the publication of Woudhuysen's Arden 3 edition, the magisterial study of the play that will energise a new generation of readers and directors has now arrived.'Eric Rasmussen, University of...

All discrepancies have been checked against the second English edition and the second American edition; the resulting Textual Notes include over 500 substantive changes.The text is thoroughly annotated, and the...

The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with an introduction and notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics.Augustus Melmotte...

' - and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth - and he screamed.'Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental...

Revealing Dostoevsky's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, this new translation is meticulously faithful to the original.

This edition of James's poignant and dramatic novel is based on the revised New York Edition. The cover pictures the Bronzino portrait which is the focus of the key scene...

"MRS BATHURST"(LYDEN'S IRENIUS) "BELOW THE MILL DAM"(OUR FATHERS ALSO)

"Abe Ravelstein IS the American mind and Bellow its finest living (thank God) voice." John Sutherland, Sunday Times "Bellow's return with RAVELSTEIN to an earlier, freer, more voice-driven exuberance is...

'no consideration, no delicacy, no tenderness, no scruples should stand in the way of a woman ...from taking the shortest cut towards securing for herself the easiest possible existence' Chance(1914)...

This collection of 24 short stories and poems, an early one in Kipling's career, presages the full range of subject and technique that he was to attain in his later...

A selection of Kipling's later stories that range over subjects such as ghosts, hauntings, and the rejoicing of a pioneer motorist on his new-found freedom of the countryside. Two of...

They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been...

In this collection of Golden Age mysteries, crime strikes in the world of books...'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery,...

A cosy murder mystery in which a cat helps solve the crime, this is a forgotten Golden Age classic.'Expert sleuthing' - The Saturday ReviewBennet Farr was the richest and most...

Fourteen impossible mysteries from the masters of the Golden Age detective story.'Lock your door and enjoy' - KirkusLocked-room mysteries have baffled and delighted readers for generations. They present the reader...

First published in 1937, a Golden Age classic murder mystery set on a cross-country train.'A highly ingenious, entertaining and unusual tale' - Daily HeraldThe luxurious Transcontinental Express, a locomotive journeying...