\"What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise...\" Mad, macabre tales of demonic spirits, hideous rites, ancient curses and alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England, from the man who created the modern horror......

\"Aristocracy, liberalism, progress, principles...useless words! A Russian doesn\"t need them\" This humane, moving masterpiece of families, love, duels, heartache, failure and the clash between generations caused a scandal in......

An aspiring young Berlin actress turns the tables on her lustful middle-aged admirer, in Nabokov\"s deadpan, deliciously cruel story of hopeless infatuation and horribly inventive revenge....

\\\"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.\\\" Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka\"s masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, is brought together here with the best of his short stories....

\\\"Listen, vejk, are you really God\"s prize oaf?\\\" \\\"Humbly report, sir,\\\" vejk answered solemnly. \\\"I am!\\\" Drunkard, malingerer, oaf and possible genius - the story of Czech soldier Svejk and his misadventures in the First World War is one of the most hilarious and subversive satires on war ever written....

\"Manuscripts don\"t burn\" This ribald, carnivalesque satire - featuring the Devil, true love and a gun-toting cat - was written in the darkest days of the Soviet Union and became an underground sensation. A new series of twenty......

Alistair Cooke was one of the world\"s best-loved broadcasters, whose weekly BBC radio programme Letter from America entertained listeners around the globe from 1946 until his death in 2004. Penguin publish editions of Cooke\"s Letters spanning the length of his career....

\"I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice...\" One of the most moving accounts of being a boy ever written, My Childhood is a both wonderful and harrowing memoir - and one......

Pat Barker\'s Regeneration trilogy, published by Penguin between 1991 and 1995, and culminating in the Booker Prize-winning The Ghost Road, is widely considered to be the definitive modern statement on the brutality of war - and the First World War in particular....

William Boyd has been writing popular, prize-winning fiction since Penguin published A Good Man in Africa in 1981....

Noam Chomsky is one of the world\'s most vocal and erudite critics of governmental malfeasance past and present. His devastating analyses of the true motives behind global events reveal a picture very much at odds with that presented by the conventional media, and often politicians....

Jorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explore philosophy, paradox and the nature of existence, and Penguin Modern Classics introduced many of his most famous works, including \"Labyrinths\", \"The Aleph\" and \"Fictions\", to a wide audience....