This is the final text volume of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy , containing The Third Partition , The Table and an index of persons. Burton anatomizes love melancholy, its kinds, causes, symptoms and cures, and the causes of true religious melancholy.

Tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage of innocence continues the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely detached and haunting quality.

This novel takes the form of the journal of a young man attending a school for butlers, the Benjamenta Institute. First published as Jakob Von Gunten in 1909, the book is now the subject of a Channel 4 feature film.

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author

A young Austrian woman, Christine, toils away in a provincial post office when, out of the blue, a telegram arrives inviting her to join an American aunt she's never known in a fashionable Swiss resort. She accepts and is swept up into a world of almost inconceivable wealth and unleashed desire. She feels herself utterly transformed.

Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, 'The Unknown Masterpiece' appears, as Balzac intended with 'Gambara', a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.

Follows a group of Greenwich Village intellectuals engaged in founding a magazine. This novel raises questions such as: Is marriage a viable institution? Should one bear children in hard times? Does sexuality undermine activism? And what is the political responsibility of intellectuals?

Introduction by Italo Calvino. Translated by William Weaver.

In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in the next field in search of a lost grave.

This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure.

Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.

Hugely entertaining novel of sex, lies and Americans in Paris Dripping with the sarcasm those Americans are not supposed to have

From tales of adultery, murder, revenge, and traffic accidents to tax disputes, labour unrest, local festivities, and suicide, this book presents a tour de force of pointillist prose and a vivid picture of the France of a century past, poised on the cusp of a dangerous modernity.

A classic tale of risk and adventure that stands beside Malraux's 'Man's Fate' and Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'.

Like Wescott's extraordinary novella 'The Pilgrim Hawk', 'Apartment in Athens' concerns an unusual triangular relationship. A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years.

The son of a Midwestern farmer, William Stoner arrives at the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. He had intended to return home to take over his father's farm - but instead, inspired by the professor of English literature, he remains at the university to teach.

The classic memoir of one of the century's most extraordinary families.

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author

The four generations of women described in Janet Hobhouse's autobiographical novel rival the 'Furies' of Greek mythology in their capacity to love and hate with vengeance. At the heart of the story is a mother/daughter conflict that at times revolves around an innocent love affair between romantic co-conspirators and at others is a bitter and deforming contest of wills.