"A beautiful and simple story of redemption, which brings rural India to life. Upon leaving jail a corrupt tourist guide is mistaken for a holy man and he soon begins to play the part."
"A good introduction to Gogol's weird and wonderful short fiction. Have fun trying to interpret Gogol - he has confused critics and scholars for over a century."
"A brilliant vivid and evocative psychological account of a young man's experiences in the American civil war. The experience of fear before mortal danger is explored without sensationalism."
"Mr Rochester's mad wife (of Jane Eyre) is given a voice in The Wide Sargasso Sea. This is her story from her childhood in a tropical West Indian landscape to her madness and imprisionment in England."
"Follow the anti-hero Pechorin through beautiful places and wild adventures. The Russian soldier posted to the Caucasus is one of the first in Russian literature's great tradition of anti-heroes."
