While he is now mostly associated with his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle was also celebrated for the many masterful...

Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective...

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of...

Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes...

In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare's plays for children....

Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others...

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

Have you ever looked up into the sky and wondered about space, astronomy and the universe? Perhaps you have. But you've probably...

As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude Morel begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a...

Dual-Language Edition.
Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes,...

Dual-Language Edition.

Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his...

Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn’t know that. He does know that he’s just moved to...

When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous ‘Sketches of Young Ladies’ in 1837, their...

When Parker Banks moves with his family from London to New York, he struggles to adapt to his new school and environment. His...

Unexpurgated Edition

Simplicius Simplicissimus – the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest...

Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives...

Dual-Language Edition.

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this...

Sense and Sensibility is the story of the two Dashwood sisters, who embody the conflict between the oppressive nature of...

During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose...

Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and...

The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national...

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde’s drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the London Magazine, New Monthly Magazine and other English...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...

Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, is considered by many to be the first novel in English, and its success was so enormous that...

Dual-language edition.
This collection of Dante Alighieri’s lyrics charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which...

This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called...

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his...

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, delighting generations of readers with its...