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Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind...

Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your...

This Faust-like and magical story of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope was described in...

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Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest...

These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to...

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To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and...

A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been...

Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted...

Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true...

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes...

In this haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince...

First published fifty years ago, this classic novel was Albert Wendt's first published book. This...

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is...

A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands...

In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable...

One of Waugh's most exuberant comedies,Scoopis a brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street and its...

Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between...

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian...

In this autobiography, published in 1975, the private Andy Warhol talks about love, sex, food,...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. He is the inventor of...

The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms...

John Updike's Rabbit, Run is a classic story of dissatisfaction and restlessness. Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom...

On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at...

Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back...