This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the finalbook from the unfairly neglected narrative poem "The Wanderings ofOisin" and a number of lyrics from Yeats' work as poetic dramatist.It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozenpoems in alternative versions; in many other cases it providessignificant variants, so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetrycan be experienced with unusual immediacy.

Laurence is a young ex-sailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a job as chauffeur to the wealthy Mr and Mrs Bannister, his occasional work leaves him free to indulge. Bannister himself is bitter - his twisted leg keeps him on the sidelines while his ravishingly beautiful wife endures his moods with saintly patience. Or does she? It's the Bannisters' closest friend, Grisby, who starts stirring, getting Laurence to agree to a crazy plot. It will net him thousands, no strings attached. But is it all too easy?

Since the original, prewar translation there has been nocompletely new rendering of the French original into English. Thistranslation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic andlucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, mostentertaining reading experiences in any language. As the greatstory unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastatingend, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a newgeneration. Each book is translated by a different, superbtranslator working under the general editorship of ProfessorChristopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentiethcentury: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bankofficer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defendhimself against a charge about which he can get no information.Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy ofthe excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness oftotalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with chillingtruth for generations of readers. This new edition is based uponthe work of an international team of experts who have restored thetext, the sequence of chapters, and their division to create aversion that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.In his brilliant translation, Breon Mitchell masterfully reproducesthe distinctive poetics of Kafka's prose, revealing a novel that isas full of energy and power as it was when it was firstwritten.

George Orwell's celebrated and always timely 1948 vision of aworld subsumed in tyranny and war describes the process of eventsby which Winston Smith, a London clerk at the Ministry of Truth,comes to understand the true nature and aims of the government heworks for, and portrays his doomed attempt to create a private lifefor himself and his lover, Julia. One of the bleakest politicalnovels ever written, 1984 illustrates Orwell's despair thatdemocracy could ever summon the strength to overcometotalitarianism in his lifetime.

A stunning novel by the widest-read Arab writer currentlypublished in the U.S. The age of Nasser has ushered in enormoussocial change, and most of the middle-aged and middle-class sonsand daughters of the old bourgeoisie find themselves trying torecreate the cozy, enchanted world they so dearly miss. One night,however, art and reality collide--with unforeseencircumstances.

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, "The Acts of KingArthur and His Noble Knights" is a reinterpretation of tales fromMalory's "Morte d'Arthur". In this highly successful attempt torender Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythmand tone of the original Middle English.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Arriving in a village to takeup the position of land surveyor for the mysterious lord of acastle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter andbaffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about hisduties. As the villagers and the Castle officials block his effortsat every turn, K.'s consuming quest-quite possibly a self-imposedone-to penetrate the inaccessible heart of the Castle and take itsmeasure is repeatedly frustrated. Kafka once suggested that thewould-be surveyor in "The Castle" is driven by a wish "to get clearabout ultimate things," an unrealizable desire that provided thedriving force behind all of Kafka's dazzlingly uncanny fictions.Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir "From the Hardcoveredition."

Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, critic, novelist and dramatist, holda position of singular eminence in the world of French letters.Among readers and critics familiar with the whole of Sartre's work,it is generally recognized that his earliest novel, LeNausée (first published in 1938), is his finest and mostsignificant. It is unquestionably a key novel of the TwentiethCentury and a landmark in Existentialist fiction.

Since the original prewar translation there has been nocompletely new rendering of the French original into English. Thistranslation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic andlucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, mostentertaining reading experiences in any language. As the greatstory unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastatingend, it is the "Penguin Proust" that makes Proust accessible to anew generation. Each volume is translated by a different, superbtranslator working under the general editorship of ProfessorChristopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying inhospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension,she is plotting her greatest work: a history of the world and inthe process, my own'. Gradually she re-creates the rich mosaic ofher life and times, conjuring up those she has known. There isGordon, her adored brother; Jasper, the charming, untrustworthylover and father of Lisa, her cool, conventional daughter; and Tom,her one great love, both found and lost in wartime Egypt. PenelopeLively's Booker Prize-winning novel weaves an exquisite mesh ofmemories, flashbacks and shifting voices, in a haunting story ofloss and desire.

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorizethe streets, where government has broken down and meaninglessviolence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- isbrought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is herresponsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author hascalled "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- aglimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present,and of the forces that alone can save us from totaldestruction.

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series ispopular for its compact size and reasonable price which does notcompromise content. Poems: Shakespeare contains selections fromShakespeare's work, including his sonnets, his narrative poems"Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece," songs and speeches,and an index of first lines.

Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highlyimaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged Americanmillionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends uponan African tribe. Henderson's awesome feats of strength and hisunbridled passion for life earns him the admiration of the tribe -but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere herointo messiah. A hilarious, often ribald story, "Henderson the RainKing" is also a profound look at the forces that drive a manthrough life.

Seventeen interlinked tales by the winner of the 1988 NobelPrize for Literature follow such themes as betrayal, intrigue,obsessive love, social injustice, reincarnations, and wrongsrighted or made worse. Reprint. K.

From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds ofstories in this book. I hope you will find some that you like - Ingoing where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, andseeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument youwrite with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know Ihad to put it on the grindstone and hammer it into shape and put awhetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, thanto have it bright and shining, and nothing to say, or smooth andwell-oiled in the closet, but unused.' This is a collection ofHemingway's first forty-nine short stories, featuring a briefintroduction by the author and lesser known as well as familiartales, including "Up in Michigan", "Fifty Grand", and "The Light ofthe World", and the "Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Winner Take Nothing"and "Men Without Women" collections.

Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the newtranslations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear inthe United States, Swann’s Way , along with the second volumeof In Search of Lost Time , In the Shadow of Young Girlsin Flower , will introduce a new century of American readers tothe literary riches of Proust. These superb editions—the firstcompletely new translation of Proust’s novel since the 1920s—bringus a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers havepreviously been able to enjoy. In the Shadow of Young Girls inFlower is a spectacular dissection of male and femaleadolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and theNormandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatestcomic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, Inthe Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal. --Thistext refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of thistitle.

Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is fascinated by his talents and envious of his abilities and opportunities to paint to the glory of God. Soon her love of art and her lively independence are luring her into closer involvement with all sorts of taboo areas of life. On excursions into the streets of night-time Florence she observes a terrible evil stalking the city and witnesses the rise of the fiery young priest, Savanarola, who has set out to rid the city of vice, richness, even art itself. Alessandra must make crucial decisions about the shape of her adult life, as Florence itself must choose between the old ways of the luxury-loving Medicis and the asceticism of Savanorola. And through it all, there is the painter, whose love will change everything.

English crime novelist Charles Latimer is travelling in Istanbulwhen he makes the acquaintance of Turkish police inspector ColonelHaki. It is from him that he first hears of the mysteriousDimitrios - an infamous master criminal, long wanted by the law,whose body has just been fished out of the Bosphorus. Fascinated bythe story, Latimer decides to retrace Dimitrios' steps acrossEurope to gather material for a new book. But, as he graduallydiscovers more about his subject's shadowy history, fascinationtips over into obsession. And, in entering Dimitrios' criminalunderworld, Latimer realizes that his own life may be on theline.

Nabokov's first novel. A tale of youth, first love andnostalgia. In a Berlin rooming house, a vigorous young officerpoised between his past and his future relives his first loveaffair.

The real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magicalliterary detective story--subtle, intricate, leading to atantalizing climax--about the mysterious life of a famouswriter.

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the FrenchRiviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Amongthe most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold courtat their villa. Into their circle comes Rosemary Hoyt, a film star,who is instantly attracted to them, but understands little of thedark secrets and hidden corruption that hold them together. As Dickdraws closer to Rosemary, he fractures the delicate structure ofhis marriage and sets both Nicole and himself on to a dangerouspath where only the strongest can survive. In this exquisite,lyrical novel, Fitzgerald has poured much of the essence of his ownlife; he has also depicted the age of materialism, shatteredidealism and broken dreams.

The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerfullongings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace.Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed acoven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, acharismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them tohis mansions...