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When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous ‘Sketches of Young Ladies’ in 1837, their...

Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created,...

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"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and...

Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The...

Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the...

As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on...

During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received - as a legacy from a friend,...

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left...

Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The...

In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of...

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is an...

While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful...

In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what...

As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern...

A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired...

Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep...

Against the backdrop of growing discontent in Paris, Doctor Manette is released from the Bastille after eighteen years of unjust...

Inspired by Fitzgerald’s own courtship of his future wife Zelda, ‘The Last of the Belles’ centres on the Southern beauty Ailie...

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald’s name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces – the most...

When Conrad, son of Prince Manfred of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances on his wedding day, his father, fearing his...

‘Tobermory’ – the title story of this collection – is widely considered one of Saki’s finest pieces, in which a short-sighted...

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...

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,...

Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst’s surrealist work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction – a theme...