Product Description: ‘Atala’, published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine, the mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American chief, who saves the captured Chactas and tragically falls in love with him. ‘René’, published the following year, is the seminal portrait of the sensitive and world-weary young Romantic hero who attempts to flee civilization and pursue a life in the wilderness of Louisiana...read more

The arrival of new and noisy neighbors shatters the peace of mind of an elderly writer living in a small English seaside town, and he begins to formulate the plan for a new novel about someone much like himself who sets out to murder his neighbors

Product Description: An intriguing study of murder in France between the wars, when barely a week seemed to pass without a sensational murder occurring.

Product Description: Written in subtle, elegant prose, this rediscovered classic, first published in 1939, addresses issues of psychology and perception, while pioneering avant-garde narrative techniques When the blind narrator, the masseur Louis Dunkel, moves into the Cornwall country house of his patient Mrs...read more