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As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a...

Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his...

Born into a poor family, Fanny Price is raised amid the daunting splendour of Mansfield Park by her rich uncle, Sir Thomas...

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...

Conceived twenty years before its initial publication in 1869, and regarded by its author as his best work, Malinovka Heights...

As Paris is shaken by a spate of murderous robberies, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the...

Celie Rousseau is a talented young artist who, along with her partner Algernon, resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris...

Beautiful Emma Rouault yearns for the life of wealth, passion and romance she has encountered in popular sentimental fiction, and...

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted – through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays,...

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted – through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays,...

First English translation of Pirandello’s first published work, originally published in Italian in 1894

In ‘The Wave’, a young...

Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there is another, gentler side to...

This collection contains some of the most important works by one of the twentieth century’s most popular and influential poets....

One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is...

These inventive and entertaining pieces display the early sparkles of wit and imagination of Jane Austen’s mature fiction....

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the...

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of...

The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth – live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father...

Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he...

Life of Dante brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni...

Published in 1880, one year before Verga’s influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic...

This evocative account of the life of the Renaissance’s greatest figure traces Leonardo’s early development as an artist and...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt...

Saddened by the subjugation of Italy under Napoleon, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university...

Everyone in the Yorkshire town of Greenall Bridge knows Lassie, the prize collie of miner Sam Carraclough and his son Joe. But...

Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The...

Originally published in Italy in 1928, and unavailable in Britain until 1960, when it was the subject of an infamous obscenity...

When the adventurer Allan Quatermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry’s missing brother,...

Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running...