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The looking glass and other stories
1,350 LPresented in a new translation by Stephen Pimenoff, ‘The Looking Glass’ is accompanied in this volume by thirty-four other short stories by Chekhov, some of them never translated before into English.
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The maddest obsession
2,200 LShe fears the dark.
He rules it.Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. Little do most know it’s just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time.
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The Magic Mountain
1,800 LMann began working on The Magic Mountain in 1912, following a few weeks’ visit to a sanatorium in Switzerland.
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The Master and Margarita
1,000 LThe Master and Margarita is a novel, by Russian writer, Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime. The story concerns a visit by the devil to the officially atheistic Soviet Union
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The Master And Margarita
2,750 LThe Devil comes to Moscow; but he isn’t all bad. Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption; and a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale, but discovers that manuscripts don’t burn.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
500 L‘The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.’
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
3,300 LThe Mayor of Casterbridge begins at a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan.
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The Meek One
500 LI could see that she was still terribly afraid but I didnt soften anything instead seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it In this short story Dostoyevsky masterfully depicts desperation greed manipulation and suicide.
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The Menopause Book
2,500 LDeeply optimistic, reassuring, and essential, the book the North American Menopause Society called “required reading” is now revised and updated, with over 20 percent new material that incorporates the latest medical findings, cutting-edge research, and best-practices advice.
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The Merchant of Venice
500 LThe Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. A merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock.
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The metamorphosis and other stories
1,000 LIn the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity’s unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity. The Metamorphosis and Other Stories reveals the author’s extraordinary talent in a variety of forms—prose poems, short stories, sketches, allegories, and novelettes—and showcases the straight–faced humor, startling psychological insight, and haunting imagination for which he is revered as a modern master.
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The Metamorphosis: A New Translation by Susan Bernofsky
1,650 LIn her new translation of Kafka’s masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in this macabre tale, underscoring the ways in which Gregor Samsa’s grotesque metamorphosis is just the physical manifestation of his longstanding spiritual impoverishment.
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The Midnight Palace
1,500 LFrom the author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, the haunting story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past.
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The Modern Break-Up
1,900 LA novel full of truths about dating, separations and love: direct, raw and damn revealing!
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The Murder at the Vicarage
1,500 LIt was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the…
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