Anna Karenina .

Portrays the Russian people. This title presents a series of interlinked stories including The Shot , in which a duel is revisited after many years, and the grotesque The Undertaker . It also features Roslavlev and the Egyptian Nights .

This volume comprises Iris and Iris and the Friends , two memoirs of the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Written by her husband, the memoirs are at times unbearably moving, at times poignantly comical.

Contains lectures on Hamlet , Othello , King Lear and Macbeth . Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as shakespeare might have wondered about people in novels or in life, this book is written by a Shakespeare critic.

This volume brings together John Bayley's books, Iris , Iris and the Friends and Widower's House . The books cover their long and loving arriage, Iris' development of Alzheimer's and John's care for her, a searching analysis of the condition of bereavement, and life after Iris.

A beautifully written portrait of a marriage.

This series collects together the best-known aphorisms, epigrams and reflections of a wide variety of figures from antiquity to our own age: humorists and novelists, poets and philosophers, politicians and playwrights.

This text relates the experiences of a range of Western writers who went to Japan as teachers and lecturers, covering a period of over 100 years. It includes a discussion of East/West cultural differences.

The moving and enchanting portrayal of the last year of this remarkable woman's life and encounters.

An essential anthology of prose and poetry to inspire, amuse or console.

Barbara Pym was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978 and is the quintessential VMC author. Following on from the huge success of JANE AND PRUDENCE, this novel was loved by Philip Larkin who declared it 'the subtlest of her books'.