Nobel Prize winning books

A flower seller takes speech lessons from Professor Higgins, whose wager brings her into social tests and questions of belonging.

Mowgli learns jungle rules among wolves and other animals, facing danger while exploring the claims of belonging and loyalty.

Short prose poems address God as friend, guest and beloved, moving between joy and doubt in search of divine presence.

An ageing writer travels to Venice, where his absorption in a boy's beauty unsettles his disciplined habits and standards.

A prosperous real estate broker begins questioning a comfortable existence built around property deals, clubs and the opinions of fellow businessmen.

A young man in Kristiania seeks to support himself through writing, wandering the streets and staying in temporary lodgings.

The Forsytes protect property and reputation while love and a wife's wish for independence challenge their claims of ownership.

Love and longing take shape through roses, birds, stars and Irish legend in poems reaching toward an unseen spiritual world.

After a saint mistakenly baptizes penguins, their transformation into humans begins an imaginary nation's struggles over land, religion and authority.

Under Nero's rule, a Roman officer's love for a Christian woman confronts him with a faith that limits his desires.

Schoolboys, parents and writers become entangled in Paris, while a novelist's attempts to turn life into fiction enter the story.

In a Sardinian mountain village, a priest's attachment to a woman threatens his duties and his mother's hopes for him.

Two children seek a bird holding happiness, travelling through the land of the dead, Night's palace and a haunted forest.

Bergson examines physical mishaps, repeated gestures and wordplay, connecting comedy with the contrast between living flexibility and mechanical habits.