This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.
Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontes and George Eliot.
Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, the author places the Gothic at the centre of the debate about Romanticism.
Essays cover topics including strategies of madness and the plague in literature and myth.
A history of the literary circle that formed around the publisher John Murray, including Gladstone, Salisbury, Livingstone, Borrow and Isabella Bird.
A lovely edition of the famous anthology. Containing poetry, music, maps cocktails and all manner of other pleasantries.
Not Maigret, but a study in jealousy by the French master of crime.
A "country house" mystery in rural New York, the indomitable Miss Van Gorder leads an assorted cast of characters.
"... the Sergeant, from the moment he strolls unhurriedly on to the scene of the crime, his dog Clive at his heels, has his own ideas as usual..."
"Sergeant Cluff, unorthodox, compassionate and essentially human, fighting a battle against himself as well as against crime, is torn from his cottage by call of duty."
A "Terhune" mystery by one of the bestselling crime writers of his time.
Where is Aunt Alicia? A thrilling romantic crime novel.
A naive young girl is hired by a gang of international criminals in plot to rob and aristocrat's family jewels.
A classic crime tale about the London Metropolitain Police.
Adventure, a neat problem in detection and court room drama.
An intelligent and witty British mystery.
"A thrilling fast-paced story of international intrigue."
A wonderfully varied collection, showcasing the enormous range of Penguin titles published over the years.
