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Looming on the border of Portugal and Spain is the Fortress of Badajoz. It represents the last chance of the French to keep Wellington out of Spain, and Richard Sharpe must lead the assault to save his wife and daughter. Third in a series taking Sharpe all the way to Waterloo.

When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny.All children mythologize their birth...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter"s collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the...

Widely acclaimed as one of the world"s greatest living writers, Vikram Seth -- author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy -- tells the heartrending true story of a friendship, a marriage, and a century. Weaving together the strands of two extraordinary lives -- Shanti Behari Seth...

Based on Flaubert"s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices...

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain"s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a nurse in the armed services, Brittain served in...

A hilarious parody of D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy"s earthy, melodramatic novels, the deliriously entertaining Cold Comfort Farm is “very probably the funniest book ever written” (The Sunday Times).

Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf"s fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel"s end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of...

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Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry...

Hailed by The Washington Post as "a definitive synthesis of the best editions" and by The Times of London as "a monument to Shakespearean scholarship," The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard"s work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems...

Johnson himself wrote in 1782: "I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets". Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson"s last literary project is also one of his most readable and...