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Zeno's ConscienceItalo Svevo (pseudonym of Ettore Schmitz)The doctor with whom I discussed the question told me to begin my work with a historical analysis of my smoking habit.Buy
Zorba the GreekNikos KazantzakisI first met him in Piraeus.Buy
ZoyaDanielle SteelZoya closed her eyes again as the troika flew across the icy ground, the soft mist of snow leaving tiny damp kisses on her cheeks, and turning her eyelashes to lace as she listened to the horses' bells dancing in her ears like music.Buy
Zuleika DobsonSir Max BeerbohmThat old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannels, moved to the margin of the platform and gazed idly up the line.Buy
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