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This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called...

As Paris is shaken by a spate of murderous robberies, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the...

Rossini’s success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as “an ill-bred parvenu,...

Paul Scarron’s masterpiece, The Comic Romance, recounts the adventures of a troupe of provincial itinerant actors, skilfully...

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Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...

An enchanting book set in a world where the odd is the ordinary, evil has many faces and love is the most powerful magic of them...

The sequel to Alistair Grim’s Odditorium
Grubb, the young apprentice at Alistair Grim’s Odditorium (a flying house of mechanical...

Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating...

Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine...

An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have...

Follows the text of the first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1938. Contains over 20 pages of notes

After travelling...

Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the...

Celie Rousseau is a talented young artist who, along with her partner Algernon, resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris...

This anthology – which contains writings from well-known figures such as John Knox and James VI through to the many lesser-known...

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...

An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows...

Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy...

After a wonderful early life as a young colt on Farmer Gray’s meadows, the stallion Black Beauty is sold to Squire Gordon of...

Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the harsh...

The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against...

On a train from Paris to Rome on his way to surprise his lover, the businessman Leon Delmont begins to mull over his past and...

In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are...

The notorious adventurer and seducer Giacomo Casanova tells of his travels – on the run from the authorities of his native Venice...

The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first and...

Unsuccessful in his endeavours, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow...

This collection contains some of the most important works by one of the twentieth century’s most popular and influential poets....

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde’s drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and...

Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the London Magazine, New Monthly Magazine and other English...