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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...

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of...

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

A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will...

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

Paul Scarron’s masterpiece, The Comic Romance, recounts the adventures of a troupe of provincial itinerant actors, skilfully...

Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author’s first collection...

A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding...

Helen and Ridley Ambrose are preparing to set off for an exotic resort off the coast of South America on the Euphrosyne, a ship...

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

Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster,...

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

Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But...

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

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and...

First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartre’s most...

When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she’s going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru,...

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