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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...

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...