Authors, A-Z

‘An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny.’—Sunday Telegraph ‘Time, love, age, memory, death, chaos, passion and the spirit of place: this capacious novel wraps its arms effortlessly around all the great themes while entertaining us with a funny and wistful love story ... More

UBSPD's Modern Shakespeare Series is basically meant for those reading the works of William Shakespeare for the first time, particularly students. Each volume comprises of complete text with a detailed introduction and notes.... More

It is June, 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come ..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork fro... More

Ayn Rand's epochal novel, first published in 1957, has been a bestseller for more than four decades as well as an intellectual landmark. It is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world--and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight hi... More

June 16, 2001 was the 50th Anniversary of The Catcher in the Rye.This book topped Sales Lists across the World, and became the Current No.1 Bestseller once again!Written in a slang that retains its currency and harshness even today, this book was on the banned lists, but that just helped make it eve... More

When The Fountainhead was first published, Ayn Rand's daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, Objectivism, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young architect, his violent battle against conventional standard... More

Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes.’ —Pablo Neruda ‘An extraordinary novel, a work of obsessional originality...García Márquez’s hypnotic history of his Buendías fam... More

Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of Catch –22 is a savage indictment of twentieth century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it. “The greatest satirical work in the English language since Erehwon” Philip Toynbee, Observer “Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically fu... More

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American civil war, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historiacl epic is and unforgottable tale of love and loss.... More

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006‘Kiran Desai is a terrific writer’ —Salman RushdieIn a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives and embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orp... More

'The best short story Hemingway has written' Sunday Times Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly... More

‘Theroux has long been the most exciting contemporary practitioner of a literary tradition honed to elegantly crafted terseness by Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene. Always a terrific teller of tales and conjurer of exotic locales, he writes lean prose that lopes along at a compelling... More

William Shakespeare : The Tempest, constitutes his farewell to the stage. From the beginning the play seems to foreshadow a powerful movement of retreat. The play stands as one of the most evocative and moving explorations of human possibilities and limits. In this text, the author presents critical... More

In TRUE BELIEVER, journalist Jeremy Marsh spends his time debunking the supernatural. He has just finished exposing a fake television psychic, proving that the man was not able to read people's minds or see into their pasts. When he hears about a phenomenon happening in the small town of Boone Creek... More

In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound sig... More