Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society ? obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification ?...

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

Inspired by Fitzgerald’s own courtship of his future wife Zelda, ‘The Last of the Belles’ centres on the Southern beauty Ailie...

After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro’s Native American guide, the warrior slips...

Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his...

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"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and...

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

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

Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd...

Written in 1932, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author’s death, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere charts...

Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life...

Rossini’s success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as “an ill-bred parvenu,...

Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells...

When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange...

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

One of Twain’s most celebrated novellas, ‘The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg’ is a satirical retelling of the Garden of Eden story...

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are...

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever...

A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through...

When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved,...

Inspired by real events and centring on the figure of Pelageya Vlasova – the mother of the title – and her son Pavel, Gorky’s...

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

Contains original illustrations by the author

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

A Hollywood hack who has fallen on hard times since the end of the Silent Era, Pat Hobby spends his time hanging out in the...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fireworks, their parents replace it...

This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville’s masterpieces. In...

Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and...