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Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius ("H.O.") Bastable are desperate to help their widowed father to restore the...

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women...

A literary classic of Japanese Young Adult Fiction
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The...

Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "let the punishment...

When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes...

W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a...

Above a disused bar, in a dilapidated Parisian hotel that houses an assortment of indigent, marginalized lost souls, one of the...

A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where...

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll...

Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they...

Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives...

When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters...

Saddened by the subjugation of Italy under Napoleon, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university...

Set in a big Dublin hotel of the mid-nineteenth century, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a total theatre creation. In it, we...

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of...

Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes...

When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous ‘Sketches of Young Ladies’ in 1837, their...

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal’s travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities...

Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created,...

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"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and...

All children dream of having a secret house where they can live on their own, far from any rules and regulations. But not all of...

Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The...

In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the...

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and,...

Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client...

On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army. Among the soldiers is...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they...

Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the...

As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on...