Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, known as Bloomsday . It features characters such as Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.

Includes stories about Dublin life.

Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this title explores passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. It is about lovelessness - 'only an idiot has no grief; only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?'

Nightwood was acknowledged by T S Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th-century.

Based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge.

Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people.

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. It focuses on the inner life of the characters.

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

The culminating achievement of Eliot's poetic career. The four parts: Burnt Norton , East Coker , The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding present a rigorous meditation upon those spiritual, philosophical and personal themes that preoccupied the author.

A novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant. It also describes English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. It explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time.

Hemingway's first novel, set in 1920s Paris, a city of Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with the aristocratic, beautiful and sensuous Brett Ashley, and the couple are drawn towards the dazzle and excitement of the Spanish fiesta.

A collection of the work of one of the greatest modern poets, the master of lyrical meditation, first published in 1955, when Stevens was seventy-five. He selected the poems himself from volumes covering more than four decades.

'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the first production of Waiting For Godot at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. Anybody acquinted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would not question the recognition of this twentieth-century literature classic.

This volume includes all of Yeats's published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still best remembered, to the later work which some argue put beyond question his status as one of the foremost poets of his age.

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox ...

Continuing where The Rainbow left off, this novel looks at the third generation of the Brangwens: Ursula, now a teacher, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from an art school. It focuses on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with Gerald, an industrialist, and later with a sculptor, Loerke.

An English translation of the French original.