OUT NOW The first ever work of fiction by Jussi Adler-Olsen, author of the bestselling Department Q series ‘This is one of the best I’ve read in a long time. Nail-biting stuff’ Stephen Leather ‘Epic, compelling, addictive’ Craig Russell

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Film rights have been optioned A heart-stopping psychological thriller, full of action and Translated into 40 languages cinematic appeal – perfect for fans of John Grisham and Alfred Hitchcock Jussi Adler-Olsen is one of the most successful and widely read authors to have come out of Denmark. He Adler-Olsen has won the is most famous for the prestigious Glass Key Award Department Q series, made up of previously won by Stieg Larsson, Mercy, Disgrace, Redemption Jo Nesbø and Henning Mankell and Guilt.

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ebook: 9781780944043 2014 saw the film release of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared which broke box office records in Sweden and made a huge impression across the world.

In Spring 2015 we are delighted to offer various new film tie-in books. January sees the release of the film Suffragette, inspired by Suffragette: My Own Story (page 11), the autobiography of campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst, played by Meryl Streep. In February Ron Howard’s film Heart of the Sea releases worldwide, based on the terrifying true shipwreck story recounted in Owen Chase’s book Beneath the Heart of the Sea (page 12). The life of pioneering explorer and diplomat Gertrude Bell is chronicled in the film Queen of the Desert, releasing in March 2014 featuring Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson and Damian Lewis. Our new selection of her personal writings Tales from the Queen of the Desert (page 13) includes letters never before published. And for fantasy and adventure fans, a new Conan film is in the making with Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his role as the hero, and we present a selection of Robert E. Howard’s most popular Conan stories in The Legend of Conan (page 18).

Being added to the Hesperus Nova imprint is the chilling psychological drama Mind of Winter by Laura Kasischke, which will keep you gripped until its shocking conclusion. The Last Pier by critically acclaimed Roma Tearne will transport you to the summer of 1939, unveiling a vivid array of characters and the haunting secrets they hide. Third Voice by Cilla and Rolf Börjlind is the much anticipated sequel to crime debut Spring Tide, which is soon to be a 10-part TV series. And the paperback of Black Noise is coming, the latest instalment in Pekka Hiltunen’s acclaimed Studio series (pages 4-9).

We are also excited to be publishing a long-neglected Dodie Smith classic A Tale of Two Families. This witty and vividly imagined novel is crammed with interesting and lovable characters and contains all the charm of I Capture the Castle. Out of print for 45 years, we can’t wait to introduce a new audience to this gem (page 20).

For those of the non-fiction persuasion we present a new edition of Arnold Bennett’s How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, the original classic self-help guide ready to help you kick-start your new year (page 10). And to find your lucky charm, read The Magic of the Horseshoe, a fascinating collection of well-known myths and superstitions exploring where they came from and what they mean (page 16).

Finally 2015 sees the 100th anniversary of the first publication of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis (page 31). To celebrate we will be selling this classic at the special net price of £2.00 – get in touch with us or your local sales rep to place your order.

Don’t forget that all of our 2015 titles will also be available as ebooks, making it even easier to read the books you love.

The Hesperus Team 3 Mind of Winter Laura Kasischke

A dark and poetic psychological drama that will leave you guessing until the very last page – perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn or Kate Atkinson.

When Holly wakes one frosty Christmas morning, her mind is filled with a single thought that refuses to go away: Something had followed them home from Russia. She cannot make any sense of these cryptic words, no matter how much she racks her brain her brain about that long ago trip to Siberia to adopt her little girl.

That little girl is now a moody teenager and with the blizzard raging outside, mother and daughter end up snowed in together all day, alone. Tension fills the air and soon confusion, flashbacks and a rising terror will engulf Holly in a horrifying nightmare where nothing is as it seems. Maybe something did follow them home from Russia. And if it did, can Holly trust her daughter, her memories... or even herself?

A spine-tingling and beautifully written novel, Mind of Winter is perfect for fans of Gone Girl, Before I Go to Sleep and The Husband’s Secret. ‘A nightmare enducing domestic mystery’ Boston Globe ‘Shocking’ Vogue.com Laura Kasischke teaches at the University of ‘A terrifying brew of family drama and horror’ Michigan MFA program and the Residential Entertainment Weekly College. She has published seven collections of poetry and seven novels. Two of her novels have 9781843915485 been made into films, including The Life Before Her B format PB original Eyes (2007) starring Uma Thurman, and her novel, Fiction - 288pp The Raising, was shortlisted for the 2011 Prix World excluding US/Can Femina (France). £8.99

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Hesperus Nova: January 2015 4 Mind of Winter Laura Kasischke

Hadn’t one of the nurses in Russia warned them? Tried to warn them? That one with the drooping eyelid and the hair like a Renaissance princess, all down her side in a braid made of gold, seeming slicked with oil. Had her name been Theodota? She’d been the one who’d worn some strange thing in a bubble of glass pinned above her breast. It was a dried rose, she’d told Holly, that had been touched to the tomb of some saint – the patron saint of stomach ailments, one of which had plagued Theodota most of her life. The thing in the bubble had looked, to Holly, like some kind of tumor, something shriveled and internal, and she’d complained bitterly to Eric about the religious mania of the Siberian nurses. Weren’t they supposed to be done with religion in this godforsaken place? ‘No. That’s us,’ he said. ‘You’re confusing Russians with Americans. Americans are the ones who’ve forsaken God. The Russians have found Him again.’ He’d always defended religion, hadn’t he? Although he himself attended no church, prayed to no god. It was a way of defending his parents, she supposed, whom he always felt she was criticizing whenever she criticized religion or old-fashioned values or pickled foods. Had it been in Siberia that the thing on Eric’s fist had begun to sprout, to grow just under the skin? Holly had a vague memory of one of those nurses, perhaps Theodota herself, at the Pokrovka Orphanage #2 taking a long look at his hand, shaking her head, trying to com- municate something to him by speaking slowly and carefully in Russian, not a word of which Eric or Holly understood. About Tatiana, Theodota had said, ‘No. Don’t name her Russian. Name her American. Or she’ll be back.’ The nurses had called her Sally. They had explained to Eric and Holly, ‘We give her American name so that in her life and in her death she will not be restless in America, try to return to Russia.’ ‘But we want her to be proud of her Russian origins,’ Holly had tried, in turn, to ex- plain, not sure if any of her English was being understood. ‘We want to call her Tatiana because it is a beautiful Russian name for a beautiful little Russian girl.’ The nurse had scowled and shaken her head vehemently. ‘Nyet, nyet, no,’ she said. ‘Sally. Or’ – here she softened, as though sensing that they might be able to compromise – ‘you name her Bonnie. Bonnie and Clyde, no?’ Holly had been smiling, but she was having a hard time keeping the spirit light. She said, ‘No. Tatiana.’ ‘No,’ the nurse had said right back to her. ‘Oh my God,’ Holly had said, later, to Eric. ‘What is wrong with these people?’ Even Eric, at that point, had regained his sense of humor enough to shake his head in disbelief at the superstitions of these people in Siberia.

Hesperus Nova: January 2015 5 The Last Pier Roma Tearne

A beautiful and atmospheric novel about family, love, loss and regret by critically acclaimed author Roma Tearne.

The summer of 1939 broke the Maudsley family. Cecily was only thirteen years old and desperate to grow up; desperate to be as beautiful and desired and reckless as her older sister Rose. Now, in her forties, the family resemblance is uncanny but Cecily is a shadow of her former self. A part of her died that fateful summer.

Returning to the deserted family farm as an adult, Cecily recalls the light before the storm, before the war came and before the terrible family tragedy. It was a summer of laughter and ice cream, promises and first love. She remembers her father’s unrequited love for her, her melancholy mother and her brittle and argumentative aunt Kitty, and how everyone, somehow, was guarding a secret. None more so than the impossibly beautiful Rose. And in her childhood innocence, between snatches of misunderstood conversations, Cecily helps set in motion a chain of devastating events.

‘Tearne charts the patterns of love and loss Wandering through the family home twenty- with beautiful prose’ The Sunday Times nine years later, Cecily hopes to lay some ‘A tender, unconventional love story unfolds, ghosts to rest but the past has yet to give up until tragedy intervenes… she has a wonder- some shocking secrets… ful ability to create atmosphere’ The Times

9781843915645 Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born novelist and B format PB original film-maker living in Oxford. She has written six Fiction - 352pp novels: Brixton Beach, The Swimmer, Mosquito, World exclusive Bone China, The Road to Urbino and The Last £8.99 Pier. She has been shortlisted for the Costa, the Kirimaya & LA Times book prize and long-listed for 9781843915652 the Orange Prize in 2011 and, in 2012, the Asian A format PB original - EXPORT ONLY Man Booker. £6.99 ebook: 9781780944647 Hesperus Nova: April 2015 6 The Last Pier Roma Tearne

After Rose died Cecily grew beautiful. After Rose died Agnes had the honeysuckle cut down. After she died the man they had called Pinky disappeared and was never referred to again and the orchard where he had once stood was sold off. No one would need orchards like theirs ever again. After Rose died the leaves stayed on the trees for a long time and the war got bloodier and more brutal and Cecily became someone that people stared at from time to time. But then, after Rose died, that time passed too, and things got forgotten and lost and also altered in the way that things do. And Carlo’s special smile and even his voice as he chased her on the beach became not a picture but an impression that blurred and receded. And afterwards something inexplicably precious was lost. Like a well-loved object that got put somewhere safe but wasn’t there when you looked for it again. That was how things changed after Rose died. Aunty Kitty went from being Aunty Kitty, best beloved aunty, pretty friend and prettier sister, someone who might once have had the world but now never would, to simply Kitty. That too was the way things changed.

Later, other, smaller changes occurred but Cecily noticed them without interest. The type-face on hoardings changed. The street signs changed. Women wore different clothes. The fifties came. And then the sixties. Bomb sites were covered over, Anderson shelters removed, wallpa- per changed in design. And the Beatles brought sex Out-Into-The-Open in a way that had not been possible before. These changes though had no power to change Cecily. For the stillness that had always been in her, the watchfulness and the silence, had grown and blossomed into a large flowering tree since Rose’s death. In her head, buried somewhere, out of reach a bell tolled, pulled by the twin voices, unalterable and here to stay. The bell never, ever stopped. Cecily had no idea what it was announcing only that she had become sleepless. As Cecily grew Aunt Kitty shrank and the figure of Rose grew even larger. Once Cecily’s mother visited them in London. Cecily must have been about fifteen at the time. Full two years had passed since that summer. The delicate face was haggard, the deep dimple no- where in sight. Her mother looked both achingly familiar and distant. The ribbon had been cut between them. She’s old, now, one voice said to the other. Practically grey haired at thirty-eight! Cecily was surprised at how small her mother was. Now there seemed even less of her. ‘Together,’ Cecily heard her say to Aunt Kitty, ‘we have destroyed something. Her world, perhaps. Mine, certainly. I miss her.’ There was a pause. I miss Rose too, thought Cecily. ‘You are worn out,’ Kitty was saying. ‘The shock… I thought it would kill you. That’s why I took… her. How could I let you go on, alone? Any case…’ Another silence followed. ‘What?’ ‘She would have had to bear the brunt at school… can you imagine? The taunting…it wouldn’t have been fair.’ ‘No.’ ‘I know I’m to blame too,’ Kitty said. Hesperus Nova: April 2015 7 Third Voice Cilla and Rolf Börjlind Translated by Hilary Parnfors The sequel to stunning crime debut Spring Tide from Swedish scriptwriters Cilla & Rolf Börjlind – television series in the making.

Samira is dead. She was murdered last night. But now she is looking down over the rooftops of Marseille. She remembers how he strangled her, how he bashed in her skull with an ashtray. How he cut off her head and buried her body in six different places. She prays someone will find her… some day.

Back in Sweden, police trainee Olivia Rönning is struggling to come to terms with the terrible events of the last year. Left with haunting dreams, brutal feelings and guilt, from now on she has resolved to rely on no one.

When Olivia’s family friend Sandra Sahlmann discovers her father’s body hanging in the hall of their house, it is assumed that he has committed suicide. But something doesn’t sit right. Having just decided to give up her budding career as a police officer, Olivia knows she should leave this alone – but she is just too close to this case.

‘Enough to keep any thriller fan up for hours… Elsewhere, troubled ex-policeman Tom terrific and memorable’ Peter Robinson Stilton is also having difficulties leaving ‘A major new Swedish crime series ’ Sunday policing behind him. Asked by a personal Express friend to look into Samira’s disappearance, Stilton simply cannot refuse. As Olivia and 9781843915553 Tom both struggle to get away from their B format PB original Also Available: Fiction - 464pp past lives, it looks like their inquiries might World excluding US/Can cross paths. Will Tom and Olivia be able to £8.99 put their personal demons aside and work together to solve their cases – at least in 9781843915560 time to stop further people from dying? A format PB original EXPORT ONLY Cilla and Rolf Börjlind are the husband-and-wife £6.99 scriptwriting team behind 26 Martin Beck films and most recently wrote the screenplays for the ebook: 9781780944319 Swedish Wallander and Arne Dahl. Hesperus Nova: March 2015 8 Black Noise Pekka Hiltunen Translated by Owen Witesman

The second in the award-winning Studio series is an intelligent crime thriller pitting unlikely heroines against London’s criminal underworld. This sequel to the prize-winning Cold Courage by Pekka Hiltunen, celebrated Finnish crime author, is a must read for fans of Stieg Larsson and Camilla Läckberg.

Lia and Mari live unusual lives. Both independent Finnish women living in London, they spend their spare time investigating difficult cases the police have failed to solve. Mari runs the mysterious ‘Studio’, a private crime-fighting organisation that considers itself above the law and has recently initiated Lia into her team.

When ultra-violent videos of murder and torture show up online, and bodies start littering the streets of London, the news catches the attention of Mari and Lia. Backed by high-tech gadgets and their team of fiercely loyal experts, the two women set about trying to stem the recent surge of violence and track down the murderer. But the stakes are high and Mari will have to risk much, even the lives of her companions, ‘Hiltunen has been compared to Stieg including Lia’s, if she is to bring the Larsson, and not without reason… This is perpetrator to justice. how thrillers should be’ Helsingin Sanomat The second in the studio series, Black Noise is an atmospheric and unique thriller that can also be read as a stand alone title. 9781843915669 B format PB Also Available: Fiction - 420pp Pekka Hiltunen is an author and journalist living in World exclusive Helsinki. He works as a managing editor at Mondo £8.99 magazine. 9781843915676 A format PB - EXPORT ONLY £6.99 ebook: 9781780943770 Hesperus Nova: June 2015 9 How to Live on 24 Hours a Day The Original Guide to Living Life to the Full Arnold Bennett A classic twentieth-century self-help guide, perfect for kick-starting a new regime in the new year!

This pioneering and original lifestyle and time management guide is succinctly and cleverly written in an easy-to-read and narrative style that readers will enjoy and find as useful today as it was a hundred years ago.

Originally published in 1910 and written by celebrated writer Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day argues time is the most precious resource you have and offers down-to-earth, practical advice about how to make the most of your day and how to strike the work-life balance – an issue still at the forefront of modern society’s concerns.

The important lesson, according to Bennett, is to commit to carving out some time each day to do things that will really enrich your life and help you progress. Investing all your hours in a job you dislike; your routine consisting of getting up, going to work, coming home, unwinding and going to bed – Bennett argues this is not living ‘There are many ways in which Bennett but simply existing. His solution is to make reaches the same league as his master, Zola. the most of the time either side of working And he could have taught Zola a thing or two hours, the commute, the evening hours and about restraint’ A.N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph that golden time, the weekend! Time can be spent in various pursuits, from literature, enjoyment of the arts or even just time spent in reflection.

9781843915508 Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) was a British B format PB journalist and author. His works mostly centred Lifestyle Guide - 208pp on Staffordshire life and he is best remembered World today for his Clayhanger series and The Old Wives’ £8.99 Tale.

ebook: 9781780944432 Hesperus Nova: January 2015 10 Suffragette: My Own Story Emmeline Pankhurst

The original autobiography of influential and controversial suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, whose story is the basis for the Hollywood film Suffragette.

In the same year that Meryl Streep plays the role of feminist Emmeline Pankhurst in Hollywood movie Suffragette, Hesperus Press is proud to present Pankhurst’s gripping memoir, Suffragette: My Own Story. With insight and great wit, Emmeline’s autobiography chronicles the beginnings of her interest in feminism through to her militant and controversial fight for women’s right to vote.

While Emmeline received a good education at an all-girls’ school and was expected to conform to social norms, she rebelled against conventional women’s roles. At the age of fourteen a meeting of women’s rights activists sparked a lifelong passion in her to fight for women’s freedom and she would later claim that it was on that day she became a suffragist.

As one after another of the proposed feminist bills were defeated in parliament, Pankhurst was inspired to turn to extreme ‘She shaped an idea of women for our time; actions. While she was the figurehead of the she shook society into a new pattern from suffragette movement, it advocated some which there could be no going back’ Time controversial tactics such as arson, violent ‘Our film is inspired by the true stories of the protest and hunger strikes. Even today foot soldiers of the Suffragette movement, there is still debate about the effectiveness women who were willing to sacrifice of her extreme strategies, but her work is everything in their fight’ Sarah Gavron, Film recognised as a crucial element in achieving Director women’s suffrage in Britain and her legacy is still very much alive today. 9781843915591 B format PB Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) was a Autobiography - 336pp British political activist and leader of the British World suffragette movement. In 1903, she founded the £8.99 Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). She died on 14 June 1928, only weeks before the Conservative government extended the vote to all ebook: 9781780944494 women over twenty-one years of age. Hesperus Classics: January 2015 11 Beneath the Heart of the Sea The Sinking of the Whaleship Essex Owen Chase An epic story of survival at sea that inspired Moby Dick and is now the focus of the new feature film Heart of the Sea.

Discover the amazing true story behind the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the new feature film Heart of the Sea. A tragic yet riveting narration of life and death and man against the elements, Beneath the Heart of the Sea is an extreme account of shipwreck survival.

On the morning of 20 November 1820, in the Pacific Ocean 2,000 miles from the coast of South America, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaleship Essex. As the boat began to sink, her crew of twenty, including first mate Owen Chase, grabbed what little they could before piling into frail boats and taking to the open seas. So began their four-month ordeal and struggle for survival. A bleak story, only eight men survived having endured starvation and dehydration, giving in to cannibalism, murder and insanity.

Owen Chase recorded the extraordinary account in his autobiography, originally ‘Testament to the extraordinary horrors that published in 1821, which Hesperus is proud those men of the Essex suffered, out on the to reissue in a stylish new edition. With the infinite deep’Daily Telegraph Hollywood film Heart of the Sea, directed by Ron Howard and featuring Chris Hemsworth in the role of Owen Chase hitting cinemas in March 2015, readers will be enthralled to discover the intense, original story behind the film.

9781843915607 B format PB Owen Chase (1797–1869) was born in Nantucket. Autobiography - 112pp First Mate on board the Essex, he was rescued World from its wreckage on 18 February 1821. He was later appointed Captain of the Carroll in 1832 and £7.99 was to undertake two trips to the South Pacific before his career came to an end. He died in ebook: 9781780944524 March 1869, aged seventy-one. Hesperus Classics: February 2015 12 Tales from the Queen of the Desert Gertrude Bell A new selection of writings and never before published letters from Gertrude Bell, a pioneering British diplomat, archaeologist and explorer of the Middle East, soon to be the basis of a major new film.

Gertrude Bell, CBE, is rightly known as ‘The Queen of the Desert’ and a new Hollywood film based on her life, featuring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis and Robert Pattinson is due for release in 2015.

A woman far ahead of her time, Bell gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq, Persia, Syria and beyond and her important diplomatic work, with characteristic wit and incisiveness. Despite the many achievements of her working life, sadly her personal life was marred by losing the great love of her life, Major Charles Doughty-Wylie, from which she never recovered. She died in 1926 of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills.

With extracts from two of Bell’s most compelling works of travel writing, Persian ‘I’m completely enraptured with her. She Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, basically defined the borders between Iraq as well as some of her most fascinating and Jordan that exist today’ Nicole Kidman letters, this Hesperus edition is truly a unique ‘Bell’s achievement as a nation builder was collection of work. extraordinary’ The New York Times ‘A gap-year adventurer ahead of her time, who preferred wandering the Arabian Desert to life as a debutante in Victorian London’ Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE Guardian (1868–1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and 9781843915478 spy who explored and mapped Greater Syria, B format PB Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along Travel Writing - 304pp with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped establish the World Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as £8.99 well as in Iraq. ebook: 9781780944166 Hesperus Classics: February 2015 13 Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey One of the most iconic novels of all time full of gun-slinging action, romance and revenge from one of the first millionaire authors and the inventor of the Western genre.

2015 will see a resurgent interest in the Western genre, with films including The Homestead, The Magnificent Seven and Jane Got a Gun releasing in cinemas worldwide.

Written by the bestselling Western author of all time, Riders of the Purple Sage can be seen as the original Western.

When Lassiter, a gun-slinging avenger in black with a fearsome reputation, rides into the Mormon village of Cottonwoods in Southern Utah, he finds a town in turmoil. An underhand land battle is in full force. Beautiful young rancher Jane Withersteen is in possession of the richest land holding in Cottonwoods, but the Mormon church have plans to take control by forcing the unwilling Jane into marrying Elder Tull. Outnumbered and outgunned, Jane sees no escape… until Lassiter arrives.

A lone gunman fighting for justice, Lassiter has his own agenda. His sister has been ‘Jane Withersteen wheeled and saw a kidnapped by a Mormon proselytizer and he horseman, silhouetted against the western is determined to find out what happened to sky, coming riding out of the sage. He had her. Jane finds herself drawing ever closer ridden down from the left, in the golden to Lassiter while he tries to unravel the glare of the sun, and had been unobserved complex web of intrigue that underlies the till close at hand. An answer to her prayer!’ corrupt village.

Zane Grey (1872–1939) was born in Zanesville, 9781843915614 Ohio in 1872. Despite turning his hand to B format PB professional baseball and dentistry, Grey would Fiction - 368pp go on to become an incredibly successful author. World A prodigious writer, he died of heart failure in October 1939, leaving a legacy of ninety titles in £8.99 print. ebook: 9781780944555 Hesperus Classics: February 2015 14 On the wild west Mark Twain Experience the Wild West in the company of American great Mark Twain. The latest volume in Hesperus’s unique and bestselling ‘On’ series.

Join master travel writer Mark Twain on his journey through America’s Wild West, tapping into the perennial interest in this period in history.

From 1861 to 1867, a young Mark Twain travelled through the Wild West. Following an abortive foray into a career as a Confederate cavalryman he opted instead to head off on a stagecoach road trip.

Twain sets out on an epic voyage from Missouri to Sacramento. He will visit Salt Lake City, witness the beginning of the real estate boom and try his hand at silver mining in Nevada. Travelling in turn by boat, train and coach, through mountains and deserts, he comes across Native Americans, visits a Mormon village and becomes stranded in a snowstorm. Discovering a land in the grasp of a boom and bust mentality, Twain is caught up in the lust for instant wealth which remains always tantalisingly close. Priceless anecdotes detail the ‘Mark Twain’s accounts of his journeys amusing mishaps and bad judgement calls around the world count among the great that ensure that the author’s riches are kept travel literature of the 19th century’ Daily at arm’s length. Telegraph ‘Mark Twain: not an American but the On the wild west is the twenty-fifth book in American’ Guardian Hesperus’ On series, presenting short pieces of non-fiction from the world’s greatest thinkers and literary figures in striking volumes. 9781843916260 B format PB original Travel writing - 144pp Mark Twain (1835–1910) is the author of The World Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, The £7.99 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and is one of America’s greatest writers. ebook: 9781780944401 Hesperus Classics: February 2015 15 The Magic of the Horseshoe A Collection of Folklore, Myths and Superstitions Robert Means Lawrence

Publishing on Friday 13th, discover common myths and their meanings in this bewitching collection. Superstitions still have a firm hold in cultures all across the world and have inspired countless books and films across the ages. But where did so many of them come from and how do myths and beliefs differ from country to country?

Discover this 1899 gem full of interesting facts and packed with titbits. Find out why people throw salt over their shoulder, why you should never open a theatre on Friday in France and whether it is luckier to sneeze towards the left or the right. And why the number thirteen is considered so unlucky.

Lawrence’s fascinating work traces the origins of common superstitions through time and civilisations, tracking how they evolved. Why not dip in and out and see how many have endured to the present day…

You will finally be able to answer important questions such as whether a horseshoe on the door can protect you from plague. Why ‘The Germans of Buffalo valley in central do people say ‘bless you’ when you sneeze? Pennsylvania believe that a boy may be Or find out what condition can apparently be cured of homesickness by placing salt in the cured by putting salt in the hems of a young hems of his trousers and making him look up boy’s trousers and making him look up the the chimney.’ chimney… Or you could even finally settle the question about whether black cats are good or bad luck!

9781843915621 Robert Means Lawrence (1847–1935) was the B format PB author of several titles including The Magic of the Folklore and Myths; Gift Books - 208pp Horseshoe (1898) and Primitive Psycho-Therapy World and Quackery (1910). £8.99 ebook: 9781780944586 Hesperus Classics: March 2015 16 The Man Who Bought London Edgar Wallace

2015 is the 100th anniversary of the first publication of The Man Who Bought London – a mystery full of drama, romance and intrigue from the creator of King Kong. American billionaire King Kerry is using his immense wealth to, quite literally, buy London, in this gripping mystery from prolific writer and creator of King Kong, Edgar Wallace.

King Kerry and his associates own a huge and growing portfolio of properties and he has come to London to expand his empire. A charming and ambitious man, he nevertheless has made a few enemies along the way including the obnoxious and dangerous Hermann Zeberlieff whose bad business decisions and gambling habit mean he would like nothing more than to get his hands on Kerry’s fortune.

When Elsie Marion, late for work again, bumps into a charming grey-haired man on the tube, little does she know how much her life is about to change. For the dashing stranger has just bought her place of employment, and is about to offer Elsie a new job she simply cannot refuse. ‘One of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century’ The Economist Thus begins a whirlwind of mysterious ‘Wonderfully entertaining and compulsively events for Elsie, as she soon finds herself in plot-driven’ Guardian the cut-throat world of business in a London which she never knew existed before. King Kerry’s rivals will go to deadly lengths to topple his growing property empire, and when a long-buried dark romantic secret from King Kerry’s past comes to light, a 9781843915638 shock will lie in store for all. B format PB Fiction - 176pp Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace(1875–1932) was World a prolific English writer, creating 18 stage plays, £8.99 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. He is remembered as the author of the J.G. ebook: 9781780944616 Reeder detective stories, The Green Archer and King Kong. His books have sold over fifty million copies combined. Hesperus Classics: April 2015 17 The Legend of Conan Robert E. Howard

Read the original tales of Conan the Barbarian in this new collection, publishing before the release of the blockbuster film The Legend of Conan. Considered one of the greats of fantasy literature and hugely influential for all those authors who followed, Howard’s Conan tales are brimming with colourful characters, vivid landscapes and are unapologetically brash and inventive.

The character of Conan, originally created by Robert E. Howard, has captured the imagination of readers and audiences for decades. Inspiring various film and television adaptations as well as spin-off books, Conan is perhaps most synonymous today with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s portrayal in the film Conan the Barbarian. To the delight of Conan fans, Schwarzenegger is reprising his iconic role in a new film, The Legend of Conan.

Conan was born on a battlefield, the son of a village blacksmith, in the land of Cimmeria. By the age of fifteen he was already a seasoned warrior with a thirst for blood and justice. Robert E. Howard’s tales of Conan, ‘Pulp fiction, and all the more enjoyable for originally published in the magazine Weird being unashamedly so’ Guardian Tales in the 1930s, span various episodes of Conan’s life; some telling tales of his days as a young warrior leading armies into battle, some capturing Conan as an older and wiser man who has risen to become King. The Legend of Conan collects four of Howard’s most popular stories in this stunning new volume: ‘The Tower of the Elephant’, ‘Queen 9781843915218 of the Black Coast’, ‘Beyond the Black River’ B format PB and ‘Red Nails’. Fiction - 304pp World Robert Ervin Howard (1906–1936) was an £8.99 American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Although a Conan novel ebook: 9781780944135 was nearly published as a book in 1934, his stories never appeared in book form during his lifetime. Hesperus Classics: April 2015 He committed suicide at the age of thirty. 18 The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson

A masterpiece of farcical comedy by the author of Treasure Island sees two brothers about to inherit a fortune, if only one pesky relative would adhere to the rules… The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel, co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.

Morris and John Finsbury stand to gain a lot of money if their Uncle Masterman dies, but none if Uncle Joseph dies first. So when Joseph seems to have come to an untimely end in a railway accident, a farcical sequence is set in motion. Determined to conceal the death, Morris hides the body in a barrel which he then ships to London. How will the situation resolve itself and how long can the deception continue for…?

First published in 1889 and adapted several times for film and musical, The Wrong Box is Stevenson at his funniest. The farce moves at a tremendous pace with Stevenson rapidly piling up train crashes, missing uncles, cases of mistaken identity and surplus dead bodies.

‘I have got R.L. Stevenson’s The Wrong Box Hesperus Press is also reissuing Stevenson’s and laughed over it dementedly when I read classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as part of a it’ Rudyard Kipling stunning new set in April (see page 24).

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) is best known as the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but was also a renowned poet, Also available: essayist and travel writer.

9781843915584 B format PB Fiction - 208pp World £8.99 ebook: 9781780944371 Hesperus Classics: April 2015 19 A Tale of Two Families Dodie Smith

A charming tale of love, family and compromise filled with vivid characters, from the author of I Capture the Castle.

Set in 1970s England, this is a delightful, funny novel with deftly drawn characters and true heart that has been out of print for forty-five years. Hesperus Press is delighted to exclusively publish this beautiful new edition.

Suspecting her husband, George, of dalliances in the city, May decides it is high time the family moved to the country. Determined to create the perfect home there, she finds an idyllic country house set in a lilac grove and sets about furnishing it properly and cooking enormous meals. She even manages to convince her less well-off sister, June, to move into a cosy cottage on the grounds with her husband Robert. This new set-up is very much a family affair as the two sisters are married to two brothers.

At first both families seem to be settling in well, sharing delicious meals and having jolly times together. Their grown-up children, Hugh and Corinna, visit from London, while ‘Well written, vividly imagined, and the surviving grandparents from both sides crammed with interesting and living of the family move into the big house and characters’ Observer forge new friendships. But the arrival of ‘A book that one can really love’ Christopher a cantankerous great aunt will reveal the Isherwood cracks in the family’s tangled relationships ‘A deliciously evocative portrait of England’ and will even threaten to unveil the greatest Daily Mail secret of all – while May thought moving George to the country would put a stop to his affairs, he has begun to fall in love with 9781843915577 his sister-in-law, June. Will the family stay B format PB together? Fiction - 420pp World exclusive £8.99 Dorothy Gladys ‘Dodie’ Smith (1896–1990) is best known for her novel The Hundred and One ebook: 9781780944340 Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking. Hesperus Classics: May 2015 20 Vera Elizabeth von Arnim

A foreboding and darkly comic period thriller considered the inspiration for du Maurier’s Rebecca, Vera is a deftly plotted masterpiece woven with intrigue. First published in 1921 and believed to have been the inspiration for Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Vera drew on the author’s own experience of unsuccessful marriage.

When Lucy Entwhistle’s father dies suddenly, she is left alone in the world struggling to find her place in life. But on the very same day she happens to meet the recently widowed Everard Wemyss. Their shared grief brings them together as they find in each other someone to talk to and in whom to confide, and Lucy finds a comforting hand to guide and protect her. As Wemyss’s control over Lucy strengthens, an engagement seems imminent, only Lucy’s aunt seems to apprehend some danger in the unsettling Wemyss.

Returning from their honeymoon, Lucy takes up her place as mistress of ‘The Willows’, the Wemyss family home. But the spectre of Wemyss’s first wife seems to hang heavy ‘The forgotten feminist who’s flowering in the air as Lucy takes over the dead wife’s again’ The Independent sitting room and marital bed. With Everard’s ‘Her perception is so accurate and her prose ever increasing controlling behaviour, the so tight’ Daily Mail claustrophobic atmosphere deepens, and Lucy becomes more obsessed with the mysterious Vera. The oppressive situation threatens to build to crisis level. How did Vera really die? Can Lucy ever be happy at ‘The Willows’? 9781843915713 B format PB Elizabeth Von Arnim (1866–1941) was born in Fiction - 336pp Australia in 1866. Although brought up in the UK World she spent many years of her life in Switzerland, £8.99 France and America. She wrote more than twenty novels, including The Enchanted April, many of ebook: 9781780944760 which were turned into successful films. She died in 1941. Hesperus Classics: May 2015 21 Poems for Palestine Compiled by Maher Massis

A collection of moving poems by the public expressing the anguish, hopes, and dreams of the Palestinian nation with all profits going to charity.

I looked at his thin, aged face Each line represented a massacre Each wrinkle, a dead son Each groove, a year of occupation.

‘Poems for Palestine’ was launched as a project aiming to collect together verse written by the people of Palestine, as a website open to all comers, all free to upload their work. The broad spectrum of the resulting talent displays a multitude of different poetic styles, subject matters and emotions. The role of art and poetry in particular, as a cathartic healer is crucial to this venture – the poems are in turn full of anguish, emotion, longing and love.

In an age which sees a multitude of conflicts all over the world, it is important to make sure that we do not forget to listen to the voices of those affected. Too many people live in danger, in exile or in despair today – Poems for Palestine may well serve as a refrain for displaced people, from war-torn Any profits will be donated to the Palestine countries all over the word. Now collected Children’s Relief Fund: together in volume form, it is hoped that this www.poems4palestine.com poetry will be able to gain a wider audience.

Maher J. Massis launched the Poems for Palestine website in 2009. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Houston.

9781843915515 B format PB Poetry - 224pp World £9.99 ebook: 9781780944463

Hesperus Classics: May 2015 22 Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A humorous utopian classic celebrating its 100th anniversary from the influential feminist author ofThe Yellow Wallpaper.

‘”But they look – why, this is a CIVILIZED country!” I protested. “There must be men.”’

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1915 utopian novel Herland was a ground-breaking work, in which she created an imaginary community populated entirely by women. An early feminist, writing the pioneering The Yellow Wallpaper, she paved the way for female writers and influenced authors such as Margaret Atwood.

When three friends, Vandyck Jennings (the narrator), Terry Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, set off on a scientific expedition to one of the last uncharted parts of the globe, little do they suspect what they will unearth.

Hidden up high in the mountains they discover Herland – a country the size of Holland made up exclusively of around three million women – strong, intelligent, confident women. Within their rich land, the inhabitants of Herland have created their perfect society and have been able to ‘A remarkable woman from the US whose eradicate crime, poverty, disease and war. influence was international’ Guardian ‘A role model to subsequent generations of Forced to face their prejudices and beliefs, women’ The Telegraph the three men each come to their own conclusions as they are kept in gentle captivity. But the end of the tale will bring very different destinies to all three men – and Herland risks being changed forever. 9781843915546 B format PB Fiction - 192pp Charlotte Perkins Gilman(1860–1935) was a prominent American author, writing poetry, short World stories, novels and non-fiction. She was a feminist £8.99 and a campaigner for social reform. She is best remembered today for her partly autobiographical ebook: 9781780944289 short story The Yellow Wallpaper, a very vivid account of a woman’s experience of psychosis. Hesperus Classics: May 2015 23 A selection of Hesperus Press’ bestselling classic titles are republishing with a stunning series look The Rich Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald Foreword by John Updike

Undisputed king of jazz-age writing, F. Scott Fitzgerald perfectly encapsulated all the glamour and despair of 1920s society.

Three short stories, ‘The Last of the Belles’, ‘The Bridal Party’ and ‘The Rich Boy’, show the wealth and the emptiness that pervades the beautiful people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is an American novelist and short-story writer, who is most famous for The Great Gatsby.

John Updike is a bestselling American writer and Pulitzer prize winner, best known as the author of the 9781843914129 Rabbit Trilogy and The Witches of Eastwick. B format PB - Fiction - 112pp £7.99 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Foreword by Helen Dunmore

One of the most famous stories of English literature that has seen over one hundred film adaptations made. A new film based on the book, featuring Sienna Miller as Susan, is about to go into production.

Inspired by a feverish dream, Stevenson’s renowned horror fantasy is a glimpse into the darker side of all human beings.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) is a Scottish novelist and poet best remembered for his children’s adventure stories Treasure Island and Kidnapped.

9781843910701 Helen Dunmore is one of Britain’s most popular B format PB - Fiction - 112pp authors. Most famous for The Siege, she has been shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the £7.99 Orange Prize for Fiction. Hesperus Classics: April 2015 24 A House to Let Charles Dickens

Compiled by Charles Dickens and including chapters by Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, A House to Let is a composite tale of mystery and intrigue set amid the dark streets of Victorian London.

Advised by her doctor to have a change of scene, the elderly Sophonisba takes up lodgings in London. Immediately intrigued by the vacant ‘house to let’ opposite, she charges her two warring servants, Trottle and Jarber, to unearth the secret behind its seeming desertedness.

Charles Dickens (1812–70) is one of England’s most important literary figures. His works enjoyed enormous success in his day and are still regarded as among the 9781843910855 most popular and widely read classics of all time. B format PB - Fiction - 112pp £7.99 Lady Susan Jane Austen

Inspired by Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Lady Susan was one of Austen’s earliest finished works. In it she reveals all the caustic wit and brilliant social satire of her later novels.

The victim of a vicious scandal, impoverished Lady Susan is obliged to take up residence with her brother-in-law and his family. Refusing to resign herself to the role of placid house-guest, she engineers to baffle her hosts, seducing her sister-in-law’s brother in the process by means of her impeccable gentility and some well-judged flirtation. Yet before her victory is complete, she must first contend with the untimely reappearance of a former lover. 9781843911302 B format PB - Fiction - 112pp Jane Austen (1775–1817) is one of the best-loved nov- £7.99 elists of all time and author of the masterpieces Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Hesperus Classics: June 2015 25 The Story of an African Farm Olive Schreiner

The first great South African novel, The Story of an African Farm is pioneering and beautifully written, chronicling the adventures of three childhood friends who defy societal repression.

This stunning evocation of nineteenth- century South Africa spans the childhood and burgeoning adulthood of three young people. Set on a farm in the Karoo region, it is a coming-of-age classic of South African fiction and an early feminist and modernist novel.

Lyndall is a feisty young girl with an independent spirit who is frustrated by the limited options open to her as a girl in South African society. She is the polar opposite to her cheerful, chubby cousin Em, who aspires to get married and settle down. The third child in the trio is Lyndall’s best friend, Waldo, a thoughtful little boy who questions everything about the world around him except his affection for Lyndall.

The children’s bucolic lives on the veld are disrupted by the arrival of Bonaparte Blenkins to the farm, a confidence trickster who is keen to seduce Em’s stepmother in order to take over the farm. Only Lyndall ‘The full African moon poured down its has the self-confidence to stand up to light from the blue sky into the wide, lonely Bonaparte’s cruelty, but ultimately his plain. The dry, sandy earth,.. the low hills actions will echo throughout their lives that skirted the plain,… all were touched by forever. As the children grow up, they fall in a weird and an almost oppressive beauty as love, move away, move back and ultimately they lay in the white light.’ find meaning in their lives, despite the tragedies they endure.

9781843915706 Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) was a South African B format PB author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. Fiction - 352pp She is best remembered today for her novel The World Story of an African Farm which has been highly £8.99 acclaimed ever since its first publication in 1883 for the bold manner in which it dealt with some of ebook: 9781780944739 the burning issues of the day.

Hesperus Classics: June 2015 26 His Family Ernest Poole

The first ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1918,His Family is a moving drama set in a New York on the cusp on change.

At risk of becoming estranged from his children, Roger Gale has promised his wife on her deathbed that he will try to build bridges with his three daughters. Edith is happily married with children and a devoted family woman; Deborah works as a school principal and has yet to marry as she seems to have so little time; Laura seems determined to live on the dangerous side of life, falling in love at the drop of a hat.

Roger sees a little of himself in all his disparate children but struggles with the reality of life in which individuals make their own decisions and time seems to be ever rushing on. As he grapples with the evolving world, its politics and its modern practices, his children are moving with the times: marrying as they wish and following their own political paths.

Summer at the family’s country bolthole, a beautiful farm in New Hampshire, provides yearly respite from New York buzz, where ‘I wonder if it won’t be the same with the the family can congregate and relax in their children as it has been with us. No matter own space, but it cannot keep them safe how long each one of them lives, won’t their from reality forever. In his struggle to keep lives feel to them unfinished like ours, only his relatives united, Roger will have to face just beginning?’ bereavement, divorce, financial ruin and war. But will he be able to fulfil his promise to his wife or is it already too late for the Gale family?

9781843915683 B format PB Ernest Poole (1880–1950) was born in Chicago in Fiction - 352pp 1880. After graduating from Princeton University World he worked as a journalist and was a correspondent £8.99 for The Saturday Evening Post in Europe and Russia during the Second World War. He is best ebook: 9781780944678 known for his novel The Harbor (1915) but it was in 1918 that he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work Hesperus Classics: June 2015 His Family. Poole died in New York in 1950. 27 Pollyanna Grows Up Eleanor H. Porter

The sequel to Pollyanna sees the optimistic young heroine growing up, experiencing new adventures, and making new friends.

In this sequel to the classic children’s book Pollyanna, originally published over 100 years ago, our beloved heroine continues to cheer up everyone around her with her sunny personality and relentless good humour. When we left Pollyanna at the end of the first book, she was trying very hard to stay positive after a car accident injured her spine and paralysed her. Now old fans and new will be intrigued to read about Pollyanna’s miraculous recovery: she can walk – something she was assured she would never be able to do again!

Now that Pollyanna’s aunt has married kind old Dr Chilton, the newlyweds whisk Pollyanna off to Europe every winter and all three start to enjoy their newfound family. Pollyanna also has the chance to travel to Boston, and makes plenty of new friends as well as reuniting with her oldest pals.

As Pollyanna grows up, she matures into a thoughtful young lady but never loses ‘An enchanting story... It is no accident that her characteristic spark of good cheer. this book, first published in America over Her goal in life is still to be glad under a hundred years ago, has become such a all circumstances, but with her aunt much-loved world classic’ Anne Fine, former experiencing a tragedy and Pollyanna herself children’s laureate and foreword writer of getting embroiled in a complicated love triangle, it will take a special type of person Pollyanna. Also Available: to come through it all with a smile on her face. Luckily Pollyanna is a very special young lady indeed. 9781843915522 B format PB - 256pp Fiction, Classic Children’s Eleanor H. Porter (1868–1920) was a bestselling World children’s author from Massachusetts. She £7.99 published short stories and novels but her most famous work was Pollyanna, published in 1913. ebook: 9781780944258 She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 21st May 1920. Hesperus Minor: February 2015 28 Hesperus Minor: April 2015 Tanglewood Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne

A wonderful collection of tales for children based on Greek myths, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter.

Inspired by popular request from his younger fan base, Hawthorne gave in and agreed to write a brand new collection of retelling of Greek myths. Tanglewood Tales provides enthralling reading.

The reader can dip in to join Theseus on his rollercoaster of adventures. Facing imminent and almost certain death at the jaws of the minotaur, he succeeds against the odds in escaping from the Labyrinth, taking with him as an added prize the beguiling Ariadne. But it will not be plain sailing from here as his adventures are far from over.

Or perhaps a young reader would prefer to accompany Jason and his Argonauts on their perilous quest for the Golden Fleece. They will have to face giants with six legs, birds that shoot steel-pointed feathers, fire-breathing bulls – helped along the way by the alluring Medea.

The author of the famous The Scarlet Letter ‘The most luxuriant of the seed-bed sowers of completes his accounts with sage words of American literature’ Simon Schama advice to the modern reader. Carefully retold ‘The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His in contemporary languages, the tales have tone is singularly effective – wild, plaintive, never lost their charm and magic, through thoughtful’ Edgar Allan Poe thousands of years, and this collection ‘The allegorist par excellence’ Telegraph is guaranteed to enchant a brand new generation.

9781843915539 Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an B format PB - 256pp American novelist and short-story writer. His most Fiction Classic Children’s famous work, The Scarlet Letter, appeared in 1850 and is considered by many to be the first American World psychological novel. £7.99 ebook: 9781780944227

Hesperus Minor: April 2015 29 The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame

By the author of The Wind in the Willows, The Golden Age is a glorious children’s classic, full of childhood adventure.

Edward, Selina, Harold, Charlotte and the unnamed narrator are orphans; brought up by a cohort of aunts rather than parents, they have unfettered access to the world on their doorstep. Only the governess stands in the way of total exhilaration and feralness.

Removed from reality into their own private world, the children do their best to steer clear of the ‘Olympians’, as they call grown- ups. The writing is filled with nostalgia at the pure delight of days spent out and about in a countryside filled with make-believe and magic.

Every encounter presents a chance for new play and new friendship. Whether they are ‘borrowing’ the neighbour’s rowing boat to serve as their Argo in their quest to venture upstream, enraging their governess, playing at lions and dragons or finding a princess, the children’s life is never dull.

Grahame encapsulates the tone of a ‘Grahame’s successful and admired early childhood enriched by legend and romance, writings had been an evocation of the and untarnished by the concerns of imaginative freedom of childhood’ The adulthood. The looming threat of boarding Independent school tinges the tales with the bittersweet suggestion that such a world couldn’t – and didn’t – last, making it indeed a golden age.

Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows 9781843915690 (1908), one of the classics of children’s literature. B format PB Fiction, Classic Children’s - 144pp World £7.99 ebook: 9781780944708

Hesperus Minor: June 2015 30 Hesperus Classics: Backlist Backlist Highlight Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Foreword by Martin Jarvis 2015 sees the 100th anniversary of Kafka’s most famous short story – to celebrate order Metamorphosis for the special net price of £2.00.

In Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman by trade, awakens one morning to find his body has mutated into that of a repulsive bug. Outwardly a monstrous insect, only his thought processes remain human.

As his family grow accustomed to supporting themselves without his once essential income, Gregor’s suffering becomes ever more pronounced. He witnesses the corruption of their former dependence on him. Obliged to work to keep themselves and admit lodgers to their home, the Samsa family generates a disgust and a contempt for the creature that has supported them for so long, imprisoning Gregor in an unused box-room. His sister, Grete, to whom he was once so close, now wants to be rid of him, his father’s new industry leaves him no time to remember the transformed son he used to terrorise, and his loving mother now neglects him.

This is a heart-rending dystopia in which love ‘Metamorphosis is a work of genuis. I believe itself becomes alienated and repugnant. wholeheartedly in Gregor Samsa’s plight, This volume also includes a number of in every desperate action of his father and other short stories by Kafka, including The mother and sister’ Martin Jarvis Sentence and Outside the Law.

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