WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIM BUTCHERThe silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlow s mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense interior lea
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The young Thomas Hardy, working as an architect, but fired with literary ambition, tried for years to get into print. He finally succeeded with "Desperate Remedies", a 'sensation novel' in the mode of Wilkie Collins.
In this selection of her father's writings Anna Freud has defined and included the essential, irreducible elements of psycho-analysis.
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, has turned his hand to humour.
Richard Feynman's Six Easy Piecesis the perfect layman's introduction to the mindboggling universe of physics. In Feynman's safe hands, the reader is introduced to the very basics of atoms, energy, force, gravity and quantum behaviour.
One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, give the novel an intimate, poetic essence.
The best twenty tales of Conan Doyle.
She is irrepressibly `top banana in the shock department', and one of the shining flowers of American fiction. This edition also contains three stories : "House of Flowers", "A Diamond Guitar" and "A Christmas Memory".
But when Kim becomes a pawn in the Game, he must face the most difficult choice of all: his companion or his country?