The orphan girl Pollyanna moves in with her strict aunt in New England. Despite a difficult start, Pollyanna’s exuberance and...

From the transcendent beauty of nature observed on the Yorkshire moors to fierce and forceful confrontations of mortality, Emily...

While Charles Dickens is best known and celebrated for his prolific journalistic output and novelistic creations, he also devoted...

Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time,...

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and...

In the summer of 1844, taking a break from novel-writing, the thirty-two-year-old Charles Dickens embarked on a journey to Italy...

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant faade of the imperial capital...

Unsuccessful in his endeavours, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow...

Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was...

Dual-Language Edition

Translated for the first time into English

One of the pillars of nineteenth-century Russian prose...

With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the...

Contains the original 1928 illustrations, notes and an updated extra material.
Orlando, a young nobleman and one of Queen...

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion...

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a...

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

Charles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before...

While enjoying a six weeks’ stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of...

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of...

Under the pressure of his boss, the intransigent Riviere, the airmail pilot Fabien attempts a perilous flight during a heavy...

As Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets’ Corner, is helping her mother write the...

Stevenson published this collection of his early fiction in 1882, after the pieces had appeared in various magazines. The first...

In this poignant memoir, Naina Yeltsina, the wife of the first president of Russia, recounts the compelling story of her life,...

Dickens... , Halliday...

Published in the Christmas edition of Charles Dickens’s magazine All the Year Round, Mugby Junction is the spellbinding result of...

As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to...

While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the...

Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and...

Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia...

Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the...

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up...

Micromegas is a six-hundred-and-fifty-year-old, thirty-nine-kilometre-high giant from the planet Sirius who can speak a thousand...