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The premature death of Sydney Goodsir Smith at the age of fifty-nine, while this volume of his Collected Poems was in production,...

While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the...

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...

Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective...

Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage....

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses,...

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally bankrupt village...

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of...

As Paris is shaken by a spate of murderous robberies, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the...

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Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...

Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating...

Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious...

Basil and Josephine charts the coming of age of two privileged youths from quiet Midwestern towns, Basil Duke Lee and Josephine...

The lowly, downtrodden Paris civil servant Jean Folantin seeks respite from the boredom and isolation of his life in the small...

When Celine’s first novel, Journey to the End of the Night, was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being...

Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon...

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...

This anthology – which contains writings from well-known figures such as John Knox and James VI through to the many lesser-known...

Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy...

The Wallace is a historical play dramatizing the life of one of Scotland’s greatest heroes, William Wallace, whose revolt against...

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...

First published in 1939, a few years before his most influential works in theatre and philosophy, The Wall was Sartre's first 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...

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the...

Celine’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...