Middlemarch

George Eliot, George Eliot

George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants  George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; ...

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert; Adam Thorpe (Translator)

Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...

Beyond Good And Evil: Pocket Hardbacks

Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the indi...