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This book is the first to present Wordsworth's greatest poem in all three of its separate forms. It reprints, on facing pages, the version of The Prelude that was completed in 1805, together with the much-revised work published after the poet's death in 1850. In addition the editors include the two-... More

In Woolf's first novel The Journey Out, we meet the Dalloways briefly. Clarissa Dalloway is essentially the same woman, only in this novel she comes to be known more through her interior monologue and through those of other characters in the novel.Born in London, Virginia Woolf was a novelist, short... More

The Color Purple is a classic. With over a million copies sold in the UK alone, it is hailed as one of the all-time 'greats' of literature, inspiring generations of readers. Set in the deep American South between the wars, it is the tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation... More

The story of Blanche DuBois and her last grasp at happiness, and of Stanley Kowalski, the one who destroyed her chance.... More

Impostors abound in the latter-day Eden that is Blandings Castle In Something Fresh, the first Blandings novel, the impostors in question are Ashe Marson and Joan Valentine, two impecunious authors. Their brief: to steal back a scarab that Lord Emsworth has carelessly purloined from his... More

An exquisite work of comic revelry subtitled 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People', Importance of Being Earnest is the last and most popular of Oscar Wilde's plays. There is more to the play than its dazzling, hilarious plot - Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew being courted with gradual success b... More

Transcending the conventions of time and place, Walker's novel moves from contemporary America, England, and Africa to unfamiliar primal worlds, where women, men, and animals socialize in surprising ways. The author of The Color Purple has created a mesmerizing novel of vision and spirit.... More

‘By the end of morning school, it was generally known that a gang of desperados...had taken the Pavilion down, brick by brick...’ When the silver sports trophies disappear from the cricket pavilion at St Austin’s, the scene is set for a school full of characters to indulge in some desperately... More

"The Stone Gods is a vivid, cautionary tale- or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species." Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Guardian" (UK) A glimpse into unlikely love braved in the face of the void. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet-pristine and habitable,... More

This collection is intended primarily as a supplementary reader for the pre-university or pre-degree classes of Indian universities. The stories are varied in theme, background and atmosphere.... More

One of the most enduringly popular of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and his belief in the importance of feeling. This volume brings together a rich selection from the most creative period of Wordsworthas lifea from a... More

Threats to the Empress of Blandings and thwarted young love almost disrupt the peace of the peace of the Earl of Emsworth in ‘Full Moon’, ‘Pigs Have Wings’ and ‘Service with a Smile’. Perfect happiness for Lord Emsworth is to listen to the contented night breathing of his medal-winning ... More

Psmith in the City tells of the chivalrous Pamith's employment in the gloomy surrounginds of a city bank, but he finds that it is not the metier for one so endowed with verbal dexterity and a yen for the good life. In Psmith Journalist our hero takes over a gentle journal known as Cosy Moments and-w... More

‘What a very, very lucky person you are. Spread out before you are the finest and funniest words from the finest and funniest writer the past century ever knew.’—Stephen Fry In this superlative selection of P.G. Wodehouse’s writing some of the most inspired comic creations ever ... More

This is a collection from P.G. Wodehouse including Drones Club tales, Mr. Mulliner stories, and stories of Jeeves, Lord Emsworth, and Ukridge. The selection also features extracts from Wodehouse's novels and non-fiction writings.This is a collection from P.G. Wodehouse including Drones Club tales, M... More

A little way in the future, time is distorting. Time Tornadoes are causing havoc. People are whirled out of their own time, never to return, and a Woolly Mammoth has been seen on the banks of the River Thames. But time is big business, and whoever gets control of time controls life as we know it!In ... More

This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers... More

One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. "Leaves Of Grass is his one book. First published in 1855 with only twelve poems, it was greeted by Ralph Waldo Emerson as "the wonderful gift . ... More

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run.The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you l... More