Set in Malaya, Almayer’s Folly is Joseph Conrad’s first novel. In it he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a twenty-five-year struggle against overwhelming odds.

Beau Geste is the world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage and treachery.

Using allegoric narrative, stinging satire, reasoned insight, and his signature wealth of compassion, C.S. Lewis wrote highly entertaining and deeply illuminating essays and books...

This new edition of Kafka’s terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts that used Kafka’s original manuscript and notes to create this text that is as close as possible to the way the author left it.

In this landmark study, Burckhardt chronicles the breakup of the medieval worldview that came with the rediscoveries of Greek and Roman culture and the new emphasis on the role of the individual.

The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940, altered the course of history as Churchill and the members of his Cabinet debated negotiating with Hitler or continuing the war.

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today…

Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion.

Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief.

Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief.

A rich and engrossing thread of romance runs through this tale of the motherless son of a valiant robber baron of Medieval Germany.

Perelandra is a planet of pleasure, an unearthly, misty world of strange desires, sweet smells, and delicious tastes, where beasts are friendly and naked beauty is unashamed…

Conrad’s great novel, written in 1907 and set in Edwardian London, resonates today in a world where a handful of fanatics can still play mad politics and victimize the innocent.

While the centers of European culture flourished, empires in Africa rose, ruled, resisted, and succumbed.

His destination Antarctica, his expectations high, veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out, on the eve of the First World War, in pursuit of his goal to lead the first expedition....

That Hideous Strength concludes the adventures of the matchless Dr. Ransom.

Joseph K. works at a bank and has no particular qualities or abilities. He could be anyone.

Joseph Conrad’s third and final major novel of political treachery and oppression, Under Western Eyes is an intensely dramatic work which precedes the espionage thrillers of John Le Carré and Graham Greene.

Written at various times under various influences, the four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad’s treatment of loyalty and betrayal.