On a crowded bus at midday, the author observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man appropriates it. In another part of town, the author sees the man being advised by a friend to sew another button on his overcoat. This book retells this tale ninety-nine times in 99 different styles.

After a passionate but ill-fated love affair with the beautiful married woman Clara, the young army officer Giorgio is transferred from Milan to Parma, where he meets the sickly and unattractive Fosca, the cousin of his commander. Although initially repelled by her, he becomes fascinated by her and slowly succumbs to her manipulative charms.

After a failed attempt on his life by an unknown terrorist cell, Professor Daniel Dupont decides to fake his own death with the help of Doctor Juard. The government authorities send Wallas, a recently promoted special investigator, from Paris to the provincial town where the crime took place, which by coincidence he visited as a child.

A work by the author of Alice in Wonderland .

In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Henright finds his romantic designs thwarted by the scheming of the wicked Sir Percival and his sinister ally Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are deepened by the ghostly appearances of a woman in white, harbouring a secret that concerns Sir Percival's past.

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends over, setting them the task of driving out the ghosts from the various rooms and reporting back on Twelfth Night.

Contains a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years.

Contains stories that include Love and Friendship , Lesley Castle , A History of England , The Three Sisters , Catharine , and A Collection of Letters .

Pip escapes from his troubled childhood experiences to learn for himself the perils of love, the dangers of wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies. Through the lives of its characters - Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Estella - this title charts the course of an England undergoing rapid social and economic change.

The pride of aristocratic Mr Darcy, and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet, conduct a compelling dance through the rigid society of early 19th century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable.

Tells the story of two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human desire for romantic passion. Elinor is cautious and unassuming about romantic matters, while Marianne is wild and passionate when she falls hopelessly in love with the libertine Mr Willoughby.

Narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven years earlier, and is made to reflect on her past decisions and contemplate her marital future.

The disparity between Emma Woodhouse's self-confidence and her determination to arrange marriages for her friends while avoiding one for herself leads to a painful series of misunderstandings for everyone who suffers from her well-meaning altruism. This title is a comedy of manners that lays bare the limits on women's autonomy in Regency England.

Presents a mockery of the proposed establishment of a national bank in the author's native Ireland, and the climate of financial hysteria that inspired it. This title contains some timely economic scepticism, as well as a healthy dose of scatological double entendres.

Presents an autobiographical novel of the author. This book contains documents written by the author's girlfriend Jessie Chambers.

Assembles the elements of Oscar Wilde's talents in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth.

In late nineteenth-century Paris, the writer Hubert is shocked to discover that Icarus, the protagonist of the new novel he's working on, has vanished. Looking for him among the manuscripts of his rivals does not solve the mystery, so a detective is hired to find the runaway character, who is now in Montparnasse.

In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance to lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, who tries to tempt him away, but instead is plunged into a discussion about art, nature, literature and imagination.

Set in 1953, this play is about tension, about friendship, and about karma - what it is and how you get it. It begins one fine morning with a few friends, honest laborers some of them, some close to being down-and-out, passing around a bottle of wine. It portrays an authentic and alternate 1950s America.

Offers a dispassionate analysis of the act of murder.