These stories cover the whole span of Kafka's writing career, from Looking to See written in his twenties, to his last work, Josephine , and culminating in The Metamorphosis

Nic Sacco and Bart Vanzetti rise to fame from a seedy New York vaudeville club via their famous knife-throwing gag, landing precipitately in the bigtime. This work is: part comic novel; part satire; part Pynchonesque slurring of synchronous narratives into historical allegory; and part political commentary.

A spellbinding adventure, blending the threads of philosophy, fantasy and reality

'Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word' Carl Hiaasen

Performed by Patrick Magee, Krapp's Last Tape was produced at the Royal Court Theatre, in October 1958.

Wilbur and Eliza Swain are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers. By the author of Slaughterhouse 5 .

Contains stories that range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers including Diary of a Madman , an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect , a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat , a moving consideration of poverty.

Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to live in the South Bronx with his Latina girlfriend, but after his gangster father murders an Oklahoma businessman in Russia, all hopes of a US visa are lost.

Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's 'philosophical tales', in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. This edition includes four other prose tales - Micromegas, Zadig, The Ingenu, and The White Bull - and a verse tale based on Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale,: What Pleases the Ladies.

A collection of some of Edward Albee's earliest and most acclaimed works.

Once overshadowed by Sartre, Camus has proved the more durable of the two most celebrated French writer-philosophers of the last century. This collection of his work makes the reasons for his survival self-evident. In prose of bleak but piercing clarity, Camus cuts to the heart of each story he tells. After The Outsider (also published in Everyman) The Plague is his most powerful novel, at once ..

Hugo, a young Communist Party member, is assigned the task of working for a deviationist Party leader, and shooting him. But has he camouflaged a political assassination as a crime passionel ? On his release from prison, he tries to explain to a former comrade exactly what his motives were.

This volume contains two comic fantasies: 'Flying Dutch' and 'Faust Among Equals'.

A brand new adaptation of Pirandello's first play

Is there anything funny about German professors? This CD features the endless mishaps of the inimitable Professor Dr Moritz- Maria von Igelfeld - the second title in a trilogy from the author of 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'.

Is there anything funny about German professors? This CD features the endless mishaps of the inimitable Professor Dr Moritz- Maria von Igelfeld - the third title in a trilogy from the author of 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'.

Portrays a man who was an intellectual in the tradition of the great French humanists, a Resistance fighter during World War II, and also a great sensualist for whom sun, sea, sex, football and theatre were the answer to life's absurdity.

June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. This book tells what men thought and felt and did as France fell.