A daring work of experimental, Modernist genius, James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century, and the crowning glory of Joyce's life. The Penguin Modern Classics edition of includes...

The selected poems of a legendary romantic. Described as 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' by one of his lovers, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lord Byron was the quintessential Romantic. Flamboyant, charismatic and brilliant, he remains almost as...

This volume opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late 19th century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and satire of a time,...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and mother Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), a collection of sonnets and a variety of...

Andy Warhol kept these diaries faithfully from November 1976 right up to his final week, in February 1987. Written at the height of his fame and success, Warhol records the fun of an Academy Awards party, nights out at Studio 54, trips...

Thomas Hardy's haunting study of guilt and lost love, now in a beautiful new hardcover edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country...

"Gerald's Party" von T.C. Boyle ist ein dunkler, surrealistischer Roman, der eine Hollywood-Party in Echtzeit beschreibt. Gerald, der Erzähler und Gastgeber der Party, versucht das Chaos zu bewältigen, als während des Festes ein Mord...

"Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel" ist ein satirisches Meisterwerk des französischen Autors Francois Rabelais. Es erzählt die Geschichte von zwei Riesen, Vater Gargantua und seinem Sohn Pantagruel. Das Buch ist bekannt für seinen...

Irresistible to women, the beautiful, young Yuichi embarks on a loveless marriage while he enters a homosexual underworld during postwar Japan. von Mishima, Yukio

'Probably the best thing ever written about the wartime air campaign against Germany' Max Hastings 'Magnificent ... rich with historical detail' The Times 31 June, 1943. An RAF crew prepare for their next bombing raid on Germany. It is a...

In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written. In this title, the twin themes of redemption and rebirth are illuminated by a consistently...

"The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" ist ein Roman von Yukio Mishima, der auf einer wahren Geschichte basiert. Er erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen buddhistischen Mönchs namens Mizoguchi, der an Stottern leidet und sich sozial isoliert...