Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh, in this his most famous novel, shows his fascination by both the Catholic faith and the English aristocracy. It is narrated by the architectural painter...
Man's Search for Meaning
Through the pages of this book runs the blood of the extermination camps, the foul smell of the barracks, the pustules, the blows, the hunger, the cold, the gangrene...
Running
Following his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the greatest runners of the twentieth century, and once again demonstrates...
The kite runner
Set against the background of the tragic events in Afghanistan at the end of the 20th Century, this is a story of one well-off Pashtun boy in Kabul ridden by guilt...
Odyssey
The Odyssey, written by Homer in the 8th century BC, is one of the greatest epic poems of all time. This immortal work tells the story of Odysseus' return to his...
Antigone
The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and...
The Agony and the Ecstasy
This is an Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel, in which both the artist and the man are brought to life in full. A masterpiece in its own right, this novel...
The Man Who was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of...
Wild Swans
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in...
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet invasion to the reign of...
War and Peace
Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and...
Anna Karenina
Anna, married, through a marriage of convenience, with a well-known public servant in Russian society, gives way to the solicitudes of Vronski, a soldier who woos her...
The Abolition of Man
The author starts from the casual reading of a small book of Language destined to boys and girls of the basic school cycle. It is any work, with the only value of...
Mere Christianity
In this essay C.S. Lewis endeavours to spell out “mere Christianity”, i.e. the elements that make up the various Christian confessions. The book compiles a series of...
Crime and Punishment
An excellent novel giving a description and psychological analysis of the inner drama of Raskolnikov, a young law student. The drama...
The Power and the Glory
British author Graham Greene wrote this story, about a Catholic priest at the time when the Church was severely persecuted in Mexico. He considers himself a bad...
The Count of Montecristo
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantès spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard...
Pride and Prejudice
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters and live in Hertfordshire in England. Due to the lack of a male heir, the family fortune is due to fall to a cousin. A rich...
The Remains of the Day
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a...