Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English...
Set in mid-19th-century Russia, this book tells the story of a married woman's passion for a youn...
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holi...
Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels ¿ Grimus, Midnight¿s Children (for which...
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was i...
'My favorite novel -it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor,...
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, th...
Edith Wharton's novel reworks the eternal triangle of two women and a man in a strikingly origina...
Features an inventor who travels to the remote future where he finds both love and terror.
Peter Washington is General Editor of Everyman's Library. He is the editor of a number of antholo...
The Sun Also Rises is both a tragic love story and a searing group portrait of hapless ...
Roberta is the eldest daughter of a man unjustly sent to prison, who shows great courage, and who...