It is the general view at Eckleton that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. The fags run riot, the senior dayroom...

When O’Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O’Hara mislays at the...

Published under a pseudonym in the weekly magazine Chums, The Luck Stone was written very early in Wodehouse's career when he was...

In order to save his reputation and the honour of his house at school after he shames himself by running away from a fight...

The twenty-five stories in this collection reflect Wodehouse’s own happy schooldays at Dulwich College but they also do a good...

When an impoverished but charming Englishman, Archie Moffam, marries the daughter of tough American millionaire Daniel Brewster,...

When Bill Bannister meets Doctor Sally Smith, love blossoms immediately. Unfortunately there is just the small problem of Lottie...

When a man needs only two hundred pounds to marry his cook and buy a public house, one would expect his life to be trouble free,...

Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite...

Turgenev's first literary masterpiece was an eloquent evocation of rural Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. A hunter wanders...

Emma Woodhouse ‘had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’, but during the course of...

‘Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a...

The language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple...

The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a...

When Jill Mariner is arrested for fighting over a parrot and then loses all her money on the same day, she is abandoned by her...

Hardy described the theme of The Woodlanders as 'the immortal puzzle -given the man and woman, how to find a basis for their...

Zbigniew... , Keats John

Painting and sculpture have inspired great poetry, but so also have photography, calligraphy, tapestry and folk art. Included...

Stoddart... , Kingsley...

The Art of Angling offers a bountiful catch of poems from around the world and through the ages on every aspect of the popular...

A comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle – the first anthology of its kind. The highly structured villanelle is a...

A celebration of fathers and fatherhood, this anthology features the richly varied voices of sons and daughters, and of fathers...

These autobiographical stories about growing up in small-town Pennsylvania are among John Updike’s best, and were the closest to...

Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and...

Henry O., Твен Марк

In this lively collection, wine snobs receive their comeuppance at the hands of Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe; innocents...

This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer...

For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them— and poets have...

From Li Bai's 'Bring in the Ale' to Ted Kooser's 'Beer Bottle'; from Robert Burns's' John Barleycorn' to Carol Ann Duffy's 'John...

Livy, Гиббон...

During its three-thousand-year history Rome has been an imperial metropolis, the capital of a nation and the spiritual core of a...

When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune...

Everyone knows Pinocchio, the walking, talking wooden puppet carved from a table leg. Pinocchio, an endearing scamp, is always...

It is the autobiography of Giorgio Bassani, told in a time span of around 15 years, a time where the ambiguous and mysterious...