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A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through...
Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends – Bernard, Louis, Neville,...
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...
Throughout his life, Rudyard Kipling was fond of dogs, and while they featured prominently in early tales such as ‘The Dog...
Unexpurgated Edition
Simplicius Simplicissimus – the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest...
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...
At the end of an industrious political career in conflic-triven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli composed his...
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...
The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante’s early masterpiece and provides...
Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova – the mother of the title – and her son Pavel, Gorky’s...
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...
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 interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and...
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...
In this open letter to his father – a letter which was never sent – Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply...
Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and...
The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K—, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several...
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