This title chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain. Unless you read Spanish, you've never read this title.

Describing Dante's descent into Hell midway through his life with Virgil as a guide, this work depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. Led by leering demons, the poet must ultimately journey with Virgil to the deepest level of all.

A selection of the most famous and respresentative of these tales from the plain and literal translations.

Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Jane, the eldest, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daughter, Elizabeth.

Set in war-torn, brutalised Barcelona, this novel is about Andrea, who comes to the city to study literature at the university. She makes her way to the home of relatives. Tension between her grandmother, her two uncles, an aunt, and the housekeeper is present from the moment of her arrival and it grows as the story develops.

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) There are three men, a boy and a dog in a balloon over the Pacific, but only two men and the boy arrive on a strange island. Mysterious things happen to them there. Are there other people on the island? Where is the other man and his dog? Will they see their homes again?

In 1912, Albanov set off to search for new Arctic hunting grounds. After getting stuck in the ice and drifting for a year-and-a-half they decided to search for safety. This is the diary of Albanov and his crew and their 90-day ordeal crossing the Arctic ice in search of land and safety.

The fateful span of Japan's modern history, in which it has undergone as dramatic a transformation as any country has known.

In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book offers an English translation of the French original.

'When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.' The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline captures the twin poles of exuberance and exhaustion in modern city life as never before. The ...

Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this work applies the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. It believes that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, are the backbone of the world's religious life.

Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged policeman Javert.

A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.

In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.

An English translation of the French original.

Written in Greek without any intention of publication, this book offers spiritual reflections and exercises developed by the author, as the leader who struggled to understand himself and make sense of the universe. It covers topics such as: the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods, and Aurelius's own emotions.

Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions and complicates her life, and tragedy ensues, threatening the stability of the whole community.

In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book is an English translation of the French original.

No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George.