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Should we pay children to read books? Is it ethical to pay people to test new drugs or to donate their organs? Sandel examines one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: what is the proper role of markets in a democratic society and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honour and money cannot buy?
‘Bonjour Tristesse’ tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences. This volume also includes ‘A Certain Smile’, a novella depicting a love triangle between a Parisian student and a married couple.
From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, ‘Lunch with the FT’ is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have had lunch with the FT since 1994 read like an international who’s who of our times. Meet the rich and famous, the weird and the brilliant, the brave and the virtuous, brought to you by the Financial Times’ global network of columnists and correspondents.
At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff – recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.
The impact of this story has had a lasting and significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.
Set in a hellish, fog-bound London, the story of outwardly respectable Dr Jekyll, who unleashes his deepest cruelties and most murderous instincts when he is transformed into the sinister Edward Hyde, is a chilling exploration of humanity’s basest capacity for evil. This edition also includes Stevenson’s chilling story ‘The Bottle Imp’.
‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction. Robin Buss’s lively English translation remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original.
Cruelly seduced by her relative, the cynical Alec D’Urberville, betrayed by the moral Angel Clare and haunted by her guilt and shame, Tess becomes Hardy’s indictment of all the crimes and hyprocrisies of 19th century England.
In ‘Middlemarch’, George Eliot fashions a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism of the age.
This edition collects together the marvellous range of Carroll’s poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more. Alongside the title piece are such enduring pieces as ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’, ‘The Mock Turtle’s Song’, ‘Father William’, and many more.
Lewis Carroll’s anarchic, disturbing and boisterously funny Alice stories, conjured up one afternoon to entertain a young girl, a re a unique blend of wordplay, logic, parody, puzzles and riddles.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence.
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