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

Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his...

From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London...

In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to...

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...

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the...

Portraying the characters and events of a small Midwestern town at the end of the nineteenth century, Winesburg, Ohio is a...

When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland,...

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

First English translation of Pirandello’s first published work, originally published in Italian in 1894

In ‘The Wave’, a young...

Dickens... , Halliday...

Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of...

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

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

Liv Bloom’s life is even more complicated than that of your average fourteen-year-old: her father walked out on the family when...

Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the...

Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and...

Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As...

While Charles Dickens is best known and celebrated for his prolific journalistic output and novelistic creations, he also devoted...

In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life...

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was...

A distressed young man murders the woman he loves in a cafe, watched by a large crowd. Fascinated by the crime she has witnessed,...

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the...

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and...

Dual-Language Edition.
Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes,...

Celine’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band...

While spending the summer in the resort of Grand Isle with her husband and children, Edna Pontellier begins a process of...

The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and...

Dual-Language Edition.

Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...