One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. The story builds ...

John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, ...

First published by Oxford University Press, 1986; first issued as a World's classics paperback, 1988; reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback ...

Joyce's classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus's boyhood and coming of age in Ireland at the turn of the century, his childhood, sexual awakening, intel ...

Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as `the life of anybody'. The Waves (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven f ...