Features Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) devastating short satire on how to solve a famine.

All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain. In this book, the author meditates on the art of book publishing. It looks at the publishing industry as a whole, from the essential importance of graphics, jackets and cover flaps to the consequences of universal digitization.

Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and this work tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the Middle Ages.

Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.