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It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre ...
A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from internationally renowned writer Salman Rushdie
A moving and life-affirming memoir ...
Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again. Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography ...
Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of ...
Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive, he wrote his way to international fame ...
Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors for the first time this book tells the story of the ...
With an introduction by Siri Hustvedt
Friday 30 October 1936. I do not wish, for reasons I cannot now develop, to analyse that extraordinary summer ...
Flaubert was not only a great novelist, one of the inventors of of the modern novel, but a great letter writer, writing letters that are ...
In the year 1900, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was at the height of his success as a qualified doctor, keen sportsman, writer of historical novels ...
With an introduction by Margo Jefferson
Thursday 28 May 1931. On Whit Monday the sun blazed, making the grass semi-transparent. And space & leisure seemed ...
The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story and why it ...
In 1945, the American poet Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War ...
46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946
'It would be unfair to expect ...
