Foreign Language Fiction

Edmond Dantes has a perfect life. He is engaged to a beautiful woman and has just been named captain of a ship. But when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him, Dantes is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If.In prison, Dantes learns of an island where vast treasure is hidden. He ... More

The nineteenth-century Frenchman's epic work which depicts the life of Jean Valjean, a reformed convict who has dedicated his life to helping others... More

In Persuasion, Jane Austen's last completed novel, the conventional roles of hero and heroine are reversed and men and women are presented as moral equals.Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born at Stevenson, Hampshire. Author of classics like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, she is one of... More

A novel by the nineteenth-century English author describing the courtship of a baronet's daughter and a young soldier... More

The Philosopher's Stone attempts to reveal the hidden secrets that have bedevilled the philosophers for aeons. From Plato to Aristotle, to Descartes, Locke, Hume, Hegel and Kant; from Vivekananda, to Lao Tzu to the Buddha, The Philosopher's Stone attempts, in one mighty sweep, to reveal the great th... More

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel.... More

Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse a... More

The hero of this book is Pip who reads detective stories and his adventures.... More

Pip, an orphan living with a cruel sister, discovers the world of London with the aid of an unknown benefactor... More

This is young Pip's story. The story of his yearning to excel, to be loved. The story of his ineptitude and discontentment. In his journey through the various stages of his great expectations, he makes steady discoveries of human values. The touching, first-person narrative makes the story all the m... More

A self-portrait by the late master of science fiction and popular scientific thought looks back on his life and career, discussing his writings, religious beliefs, friendships and personal relationships, and innovative ideas. Reprint. NYT.... More

Kim, an Irish orphan, journeys throughout India and accompanies a holy man on his quest for a mystic river... More

In the slave market in a tropical Colombian seaport, venturing to buy a string of bells, the Marquis’s twelve-year-old daughter, Sierva Maria, is bitten by a rabid dog. ‘No medicine cures what happiness cannot,’ the wily physician Abrenuncio advises her father. Garcia Marquez’s magical no... More

Why did Judas betray Jesus?The Pope recently referred to the continuing ‘mystery of Judas’. This intriguing book – the result of an intense collaboration between one of the world’s most popular storytellers and one of the world’s leading biblical scholars – throws a new light on the eve... More

The Faerie Queene is famous as an extended allegorical poem, so this guide encourages the reader to think about the process of reading, and particularly of reading allegory. The Faerie Queene is a demanding poem which requires not only an actively engaged reader but a reader prepared to learn differ... More

The unexpected never happens ... A man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged ... has he achieved 'Th... More

At a Hallowe’en party, Joyce – a hostile thirteen-year-old – boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub.That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the ‘ev... More

Saki's stories are beautifully varnished. taut pieces of writing, resolving on a twist at the last sentence. They reflect the manners and attitudes of the Edwardian society, from the point of view of the sardonic insider, and are at times marked by shades of black humour. This collection presents so... More

In her 53rd bestselling novel, Danielle Steel explores how a single shattering moment can change lives forever. "The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole. On a war... More