Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent....

The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment as in no other period and the crowning achievement of that caustic,...

Although E. Nesbit regarded her poetry as her most important work, it is her children's books (written 'to keep the house going')...

This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several...

Rabelais... , Гюго...

In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...

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Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the...

Stories of Motherhood gathers together more than a century of short fiction from a wide variety of authors in a literary...

In these articles first produced for magazines and substantially rewritten for book publication, Wodehouse reveals his enduring...

This volume reprints two of Wodehouse's earliest story sequences, each linked by a central character, a technique he used many...

When Lord Emsworth's delectable solitude at Blandings Castle is shattered by the arrival from America of his bossy sister,...

With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his...

The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary – the Efficient Baxter – and the...

This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy...

Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people's romantic problems, not even when faced with the...

Monty Bodkin's pursuit of Gertude Butterwick is temporarily interrupted by his encounter with silver-screen siren Miss Lotus...

Anyone who involves himself with Roberta Wickham is asking for trouble, so naturally Bertie Wooster finds himself in just that...

A Hollywood star and an English aristocrat exchange souls while under ether at the dentist and the result is mayhem. Though his...

The trouble which begins with Gussie Fink-Nottle wandering the streets of London dressed as Mephistopheles reaches its awful...

While pursuing the love of his life, American heiress Pauline Stoker, Lord 'Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves, the...

Beyond the few known facts we have about William Shakespeare, our real knowledge of him comes from the substantial body of...

"Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting ....