Classic Fiction

The story of an Egyptian farm worker as she tries to come to terms with the difficult circumstances of an arranged marriage which she does not want...

The twenty-six stories included in this volume are taut, economical in structure, precisely observed and laced with irony. They include some of his...

In Sentiment, Vincent O'Sullivan looks inside the lives of a group of middle-class English people just before the start of the first world war. The...

"The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is torturing."Written with barely controlled fury afte...

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then...

What would you do if a bird with golden wings alighted on your terrace and offered you fabulous riches? A poor little girl is rewarded with l...