As an acclaimed novelist, Miles Fanning is well used to the unwanted attentions of his fans. Yet little prepares him for the determination of the gauche Pamela Tarn who resolves to enter not only his world, but also his bed. Yet as they are inexorably drawn together, they embark upon a tempestuous - and ultimately destructive - affair.

Inside its glass dome the One State is a place of mathematical precision, a community where everything is everyone's and integrity, clarity and unerrring loyalty reign over all. D-503, Builder of the Integral, is an honest Cipher, ashamed of the hairy hands that link him to a barbaric ancestry.

On Deception presents the highlights of Houdini's writings on illusions, revealing him to have been a remarkably prescient champion of rationalism and an ardent opponent of the duping of susceptible individuals.

One of the leading figures of the English Romantic movement, and an inspiration for many future poets, John Keats is chiefly remembered for his sublime odes, with works such as Ode to a Nightingale , To Autumn and Ode on a Grecian Urn counting among the best loved poems of all time. This biography charts the life of this brilliant poet.

Ever anxious to keep up appearances, self-avowed intellectual and scholar Nicholas Herrick knows that to involve himself in the running of his own school would be to abase himself too far. Assembling around himself a cast of fittingly fawning friends and aides, he sets about unveiling his final masterpiece.

62-year-old Louis Roubieu sees his family's long-awaited prosperity as a reward rained upon him by God for years of arduous toil on the land. Yet it is the very abundance of God's rain, initially observed from the window of their imposing farmhouse, that comes to pose a dire threat to not merely their livelihood, but their very lives.

Drawing the reader in to an eerie world, Starobinets blurs the boundaries between real and imagined, filtering experience through unstable minds and sinister occurrences.

A seminal text in the history of Naturalism, Germinie Lacerteux was a strong influence on Zola, and, it has been claimed, inaugurated the literary portrayal of the French lower classes.

A biography of Emile Zola who analyzed the struggles of the Parisian working class, the sexual intrigues of high society, and the rise of consumer culture. It describes nineteenth-century France and its literary culture.

A biography of the life and career of Donne, charting his progress from an impoverished young writer to Dean of St Paul's. It includes examples of Donne's own writing to reveal the full richness of the poet.

The only available translation of the most celebrated fictional work by the influential German dramatist Frank Wedekind.

Orphan Ellinor Arden is called from her secluded Paris home to London for the hearing of her uncle's will. She is named as the inheritor of his fortune, on condition that she marry his adopted son. She attaches herself irreversibly to this perfect stranger, but it soon becomes clear that her trust in a dead man's wishes has been misplaced.

Features tales of angels, ghosts, and marriages that are as treacherous as they are inspiring. This book features more than one horrifying account of murder, and contains stories that carry warnings about love's dangers as well as its delights. It includes contributors such as: Elizabeth Gaskell and George A Sala.

Obsession and desire swirl through these two novellas by Kanoko Okamato, as she describes Japanese society poised in a moment of peace before the world was torn apart by war.

Following a chance meeting with Mr and Mrs Parker, Charlotte Heywood accompanies them to their home in Sanditon, extravagantly vaunted by her hosts as the future epicentre of society summers. On arrival, our heroine finds herself confronted with a deserted town, which nevertheless begins to fill with holidaymakers.

A study of the author's life's movement away from the religious certainties of youth which contextualises the great works he is best known for.

Hilda and Ernest are a typical married couple, squabbling their way through a day-trip. When they meet a pair of sailors, they are both disturbed and unsettled, but their initial wariness gives way in an unlikely, and jolly, joint trip to a local landmark, which ends in surprise for both husband and wife.

Tolstoy's two novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina , are among the best loved in world literature. This title compares these works. It considers why such a strong character as Tolstoy welcomed into his life two appalling individuals whose malign influence changed him and his literary career forever.

A fresh and idiomatic translation of the Nobel Laureate's enchanting memoir of his childhood, this volume forms an ideal introduction to the work of Rabindranath Tagore, one of India's most acclaimed poets and thinkers.

A captivating tale of Tantric ritual and court intrigue, set in eastern India during the seventeenth century, this novella shows Calcutta's most famous novelist at his incisive and alluring best.