Something happened, Joseph Heller

Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Beautiful, brutal, strange and lovely: this is Lorca reborn, in a selection of previously unpublished pieces and masterful new translations

It is a book about laughter and forgetting, about forgetting and about Prague, about Prague and about the angels.

Covering topics including adultery, lust, pornography and impotence, Alain de Botton argues that 21st century sex will always be a balancing act of trust versus risk, and of primal desire versus studied civility.

Through drink, Bukowski is able to be alone, to be with people, to be a poet, a lover, and a friend—though often at great cost. As Bukowski writes in a poem simply titled “Drinking,”: “for me/it was or/is/a manner of/dying/with boots on/and gun/smoking and a/symphony music background.”

'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'

Jules Verne, exited by the scientific progress of his age, makes us belive, in Journey to the Center of the Earth, that is possible to descend into the depths of the planet. The author did research into geology, mineralogy and paleontology, and astounded experts with his descriptions of prehistoric animals.

But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.

Jane Austen's final completed novel is set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath. It has been described as the most romantic of all her novels.

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.

Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. 

Centred around one day in June where Clarissa is preparing for and holding a party, her interior monologue mingles with those of the other central characters in a stream of consciousness, entwining, yet never actually overriding the pervading sense of isolation that haunts each person.

Stivenson wrote Treasure Island when he saw his nephew use watercolours to paint the map of an island. He begain to give the island names: Skeleton Island or Spyglas Hill, until finally writting ''Treasure Island'' in the upper right-hand part of the page. After a long illness, he died on the islan of Upolu, in the south Pacific, where he was living at...

It explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit.

Is Howard guilty? Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world that’s a gazillion shades of grey?

Dicken's early economic privations inspired his best novels, which had great social and critical content. In 1836 his editor offered him the chance of writing a monthly serial, The Papers of the Pickwick Club, which would bring him fame. Around the same time he wrote another novel in weekly episodes, Oliver Twist, in which he crudely described the harsh...