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When Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his...
The local landowner Van Cheele experiences an unnerving encounter with a youth sunning himself near a pond, and starts to wonder...
‘Tobermory’ – the title story of this collection – is widely considered one of Saki’s finest pieces, in which a short-sighted...
When Sherlock Holmes receives a bungled tip-off from one of the agents of his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the great detective...
Contains original illustrations by the author
First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of...
In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires...
Pipi isn’t like his four brothers or the other young monkeys living in the forest of Hullabaloo: he has bright-pink fur, a...
A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying...
Conceived twenty years before its initial publication in 1869, and regarded by its author as his best work, Malinovka Heights...
This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati – author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe...
A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the...
When the young priest Francesco Vela becomes the incumbent of the parish of Soana, a small village in Ticino, he is tasked with...
The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production,...
On his return to London after serving in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as an assistant surgeon, Doctor Watson is looking for a...
Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst’s surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction – a theme...
While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the...
Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works,...
After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island....
From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the Yorkshire moors to fierce and forceful confrontations of mortality, Emily...
Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life...
The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York’s most prominent families – is living the life that has...
A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his...
Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his...
Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself...
Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the...
Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...
What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is...
After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d’Urbervilles, as...
Published in 1880, one year before Verga’s influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic...
Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued...
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