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Burglar Bill is an entertaining picture book by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg,...

A car is all very well if you know how to drive it, but if you're Meg or Mog, in a hurry to go on a picnic, you really are safer...

Mog wants to go in a spaceship for his birthday treat... so Meg makes a spell, and off they go!

Early one morning, Jim woke up and saw a massive plant growing outside his window . . .

In this re-telling of the classic...

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the...

In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the...

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in...

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of...

Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and...

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

A superb new translation by Judson Rosengrant of Tolstoy's semi-autobiographical trilogy

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy,...

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service,...

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character,...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

Mencius was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, second only in influence to Confucius, whose teachings he defended...

Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father...

His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is...

This volume includes Family Happiness; The Kreutzer Sonata; The Devil and Father Sergius. The four stories are all about love,...

In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years...

Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning...

Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young...

Perhaps his most famous work, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the...

Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and...

Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era,...

'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death'

The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and...

In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their...

The heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina has beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son, but...