The most extensively annotated edition available with almost 1,000 notes by Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner

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In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of...

Deeply bored by the lack of mental stimulus and the dull routine of existence, Sherlock Holmes is about to resort to his daily...

One of Stevenson’s most famous and enduringly popular works, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde describes the mysterious...

Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a...

Zazie has just received a beautiful new notebook, and decides to keep a diary. Brimming with imagination, she writes down her...

In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio­syncratic artistic vision found space for...

Purporting to be an autobiography of the antihero Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne’s novel is a comic masterpiece of digression,...

Contains original illustrations by the author

Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was...

When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a...

Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was...

When Tudy's first husband tragically dies, she takes up the offer of Tom, a family friend, to pay for her to go to study in...

This collection of Pushkin’s stories begins with ‘The Queen of Spades’, perhaps the most celebrated short story in Russian...

“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”

Described...

A first-person diary of a prisoner’s final day before being executed for an unspecified crime, Victor Hugo’s poignant tale...

Ichabod Crane is a young schoolmaster from Connecticut now living in Sleepy Hollow, a settlement in New York State notorious for...

In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we...

Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the...

When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a...

Dora, Oswald, Dicky, Alice, Noel and Horace Octavius ("H.O.") Bastable are desperate to help their widowed father to restore the...

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women...

A literary classic of Japanese Young Adult Fiction
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The...

Gilbert's libretti of the comic operas composed by Arthur Sullivan are hugely well known, and lines such as "let the punishment...

When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes...

W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a...

A young Harvard graduate with bright prospects, Bill Frothington is invited on board a steamer hosting a high-school dance, where...

Described by Herman Melville as being “as deep as Dante”, ‘Young Goodman Brown’ is set during the Salem witch trials and features...

When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville...

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll...

Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they...