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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...
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...
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...
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...
One of the most famous and celebrated Victorian coming-of-age novels, David Copperfield charts the adventures and vicissitudes of...
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...
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...
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