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Un tour de force narrativo sorprendente, afrodisíaco, literariamente impactante, de la mano de una de las máximas figuras de las letras europeas actuales.

Nostalgia, la obra que consagró a Mircea Cărtărescu como la voz más potente de las actuales letras rumanas, constituye una auténtica revolución literaria. El volumen, de una calidad prodigiosa, se abre con «El Ruletista», que narra la improbable historia de un hombre al que nunca le ha sonreído la suerte, pero que, sorprendentemente, hace fortuna participando en letales sesiones de ruleta rusa. En «El Mendébil», un mesías impúber de aires proustianos pierde sus poderes mágicos con el advenimiento de su propia sexualidad, y se ve perseguido por una legión de jóvenes acólitos. En «Los gemelos», Cărtărescu se entrega a la bizarra exploración de la ira juvenil, hasta desembocar en la pieza central del libro, «REM», que narra la historia de Nana, una mujer de mediana edad, enamorada de un estudiante de instituto en una Bucarest pesadillesca, enciclopédica, que se eleva a la categoría de ciudad universal.

May the odds be ever in your favour.

Winning will make you famous. Losing means certain death.

Stormy things do come and go, but Shakespeare's last tribute to human perfidy and awe kept coming back for the past four centuries. Andrei Zlatescu charts off the enigmatic Tempest's interpretations in an orderly, solid and original afterplay, itself staged so as to guide the perplexed, contain the wild and coddle the lover of intempestive festivities. (Calin-Andrei Mihailescu)

A small yet compelling volume with several old pictures of what Bucharest used to look before the Second World War

An interesting and thorough edition which brings together not only Bram Stoker's magnum opus Dracula, but also the lesser known but maybe just as important Dracula's Guest, as well as several horific and terrifying stories from the writer who created the modern myth of the vampire. A rich collection of terror for anyone who is passionate about strange and unusual prose and naratives.

Being the second novel by John le Carre "starring" George Smiley, it is a departure from the world of espionage to that of a very English institution, the Carne School, a place which has it's own connections to the hero. So now Smiley is investigating the murder of Stella Rode on the grounds of the school.

Along with ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’ there are more than 30 other essays and stories, marked by the gothic style and elements that made Irving one of the most popular authors of his time and even today one of the best American writers. Besides the adventure of Ichabod Crane you will find in the volume published in the Collins Classics Series several stories and frights for your liking.

Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles follows the infamous Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson as they investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose dead body is found on the misty and desolate Devon moors.

The locals blame his death on the legend of the fearsome phantom hound that they claim has haunted the Baskerville family for generations. When the heir to the Baskerville fortune, Sir Henry, also comes under threat Holmes’ detective skills are put to the test as he battles to discover the truth behind the legend and to solve one of the most macabre mysteries of his career.

A tale of tragedy, love and the charming life in a traditional village facing the reality of modernity, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of the more optimistic novels by Thomas Hardy, portraiying the life in the quiet county of Wessex.

One of Shakespeare’s most witty and enjoyable comedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a play that explores courtship, romance and marriage through a number of relationships. Most famously, that of the irrepressible Beatrice and Benedick as they trade their wits against one another, criticising the notion of marriage, yet slowly falling in love with one another as they do so.

Published in 1899, Kate Chopin's The Awakening is nowadays considered to be one of the very first feminist titles of literature. Ironic, considering that in it's day it was rejected, the author failing at first to find a publisher willing to take a risky chance. Edna Pontellier is one of the most interesting female characters in the literature of her time, a wife and mothers who is powerful, dares to question and think about the values of family, marriage and motherhood. She is having an awakening, as the title said, an awakening amidst a society which is hostile by conventions and conventional by nature.

In one of the best known and loved works by Jules Verne, certainly a science-fiction classics, Professor Lidenbrock is the one who comes by pure chance of accident upon an ancient and forgotten manuscript. Writter in code, it becomes a quest for the Profesor to crack the code and solve the mistery. No small is the surprise as the text was written by an Icelandic explorer who managed to travel to the very centre of the Earth.

The Collins Classics Collection brings together some of the best names and titles in the history of literature

A superb selection of stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, including the famous Curious Case of Benjamin Button

It was with outrage and disgust that this novel was received upon it's original publication, as the love affairs of the two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, were more than the public could easily accept.

'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very few really are'

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the hoodlums who have raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of Clanton see it as a crime of blood and call for his acquittal.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Born into a theatrical family, Chaplin's father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered from bouts of insanity, Chaplin embarked on a film-making career which won him immeasurable success, as well as intense controversy.

Though his father had been reluctant to become a heroic field operative, Jack Ryan, Jr. wants nothing more…

‘Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready’ (The Times)

Sometimes you can grow up in just one night. It is August 16th 1977 – a steaming summer night, the night that Elvis Presley will die, while in London three young men will discover the true meaning of friendship.

Baby is twelve years old. Her mother died not long after she was born and she lives in a string of seedy flats in Montreal's red light district with her father Jules, who takes better care of his heroin addiction than he does of his daughter.

The author of outstanding travel books, autobiographical works and novels, including the classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) is regarded by many as America's finest humorist and a major writer of short stories.

Tick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them ...

A disturbing masterpiece of narrative invention and moving storytelling from one of Japan's most highly respected and bestselling writers.

Poems selected by Ted Hughes

Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon.

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll

"Gripping and moving. . . . A marvelous return to the John le Carre of old, with all the captivating characters, finely rendered landscapes, and messy complexities that have always powered his best work." -San Francisco Chronicle