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Pale fire
1,650 LA novel constructed around the last great poem of a fictional American poet, John Shade, and an account of his death. The poem appears in full and the narrative develops through the lengthy, and increasingly eccentric, notes by his posthumous editor.
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Studies in Hysteria
2,150 LThe tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders – yet at the same time it is the most elusive.
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A happy death
2,000 LIs it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus’s astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society’s rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.
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The unconscious
1,650 LOne of Freud’s central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.
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The first man
1,700 LThe incomplete manuscript of The First Man, which Camus had referred to as “the novel of my maturity,” was found in a mud-spattered briefcase near the wreckage of the car in which Camus died in January of 1960, when he was forty-six. Partly a novel of childhood and partly an epic narrative of his beloved Algeria, The First Man was intended to re-create Camus’s homeland– then still a colony in a traumatic struggle for independence– for the mainland French.
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
1,600 LIn 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.
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The Fall
1,500 LA philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as ‘perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood’ of his novels, Albert Camus’ The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.
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A Moveable Feast
1,500 LPublished posthumously in 1964, “A Moveable Feast” remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
1,400 LHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dyamiting.
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
1,650 LFrom behind the closed door, the man shouts, Be on your way – you have no business hereOpen up, I am the messenger of Death.
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Concert
1,750 LIt’s the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1,650 LIn these Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love and die in scenes of dramatic intensity.
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Midsummer Mysteries
2,500 LAn all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season.
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Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
1,500 LA wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place…
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