Fifty superb essays by one of the finest minds of the 20th century. Whatever he is writing about, Orwell's penetrating intelligence, his common sense and his compassion shine through.
Shaw believed that theatre audiences of the 1890s deserved more than the hollow spectacle and sham he saw displayed on the London stage. But he also recognized that people wanted to be entertained whi
Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'
Chekhov is renowned as the greatest short story writer the world has ever known. Here is the first volume of an exciting project to print all Chekhov's stories in the order in which they were original
This volume publishes all Sassoon's war poems - including those he wrote before seeing action. As a body of work, Sassoon's poetry represents the anger, bitterness and compassion of an intelligent and
