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

Contains the Preface to the 1908 Edition

Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...

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...

The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live...

Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his...

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...