Collection: Fiction (Academy Use Only)

A comic masterpiece from the great age of Russian literature. It tells the story of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a corrupt minor bureaucrat, who attempts to buy up the identities of dead peasants in a scam designed to obtain free land from the government.

Iron Man 2.0 is here - and Tony Stark isn't the one who made him! Ezekiel Stane is on the scene and fixated on avenging the death of his father, Obadiah. Every bit as ruthless and ten times as smart, the younger Stane ia all five of Stark's nightmares rolled into one.

When Brenda Last embarks on an affair with the worthless John Beaver out of boredom with her husband, she sets in motion a sequence of tragi-comic disasters which reveal Waugh at his most mordant and incisive.