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

Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works,...

After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island....

Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life...

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...

Coming back into town after a hunting expedition, Alexandre Dumas witnesses an incredible scene: a man has come to hand himself...

Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the...

What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is...

After an accident, Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of impoverished peasants, decides to call on the aristocratic d’Urbervilles, as...

Published in 1880, one year before Verga’s influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic...

Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued...

Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, The Gods Want Blood centres on the rise to power of the Jacobin sympathizer...

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

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This collection of Scottish short stories has been chosen to give as wide as possible a picture of Scottish fiction of the...

As they relax after dinner on Christmas Eve, members of Uncle John's family and their guests turn to telling stories about their...

As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude Morel begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a...

The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr...

When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him,...

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

An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancee for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her...

Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his...

Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia...

This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville’s masterpieces. In...

A young woman, who works as a maid for a living, takes her charge out to play in a Parisian garden square. Sitting on a bench,...

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

This collection brings together the four plays that feature Ionesco’s everyman protagonist Jean Berenger. In ‘The Killer’, he...

A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain...

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that...

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