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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...
It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote...
Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into...
This anthology – which contains writings from well-known figures such as John Knox and James VI through to the many lesser-known...
When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus...
When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it...
During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose...
When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...
The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove...
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...
Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the...
When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved,...
Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the harsh...
It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife....
The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against...
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the...
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...
Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love...
In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are...
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...
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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...
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