Item category 2: Classic Fiction

This is a collection of Chekhov's most lyrical stories in a new translation of great skill and originality, published in 2004 to coincide with the centenary of Chekhov's death.

Faulkner comments profoundly on the South and the human condition in this novel which tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, a poor white boy who becomes a rich plantation owner.

The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, a British soldier's son born in 1947 in a newly independent Pakistan, and Sasha, the refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Si...

Richard Cantrell, an American colonel falls passionately in love with an Italian countess in Venice just after World War Two has ended. The fighting may have ended, but for some the longed-for peace has come too late.

'The Actual' features Harry Trellman, a Chicago man who, after a lifetime of making money, has become a 'first class noticer', and realises he has been in love with Amy Wurstin since his high school days.

Romance follows Ada and Van from their first childhood meeting through eight years of rapture. The story exhibits some of the perversity of 'Lolita' but also much more playfulness.