Follows the text of the first edition published by Secker & Warburg in 1938. Contains over 20 pages of notes

After travelling...

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the...

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

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma,...

First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career....

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...

In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him...

An exponent of the theory that William Shakespeare, the modestly educated provincial man from Stratford-upon-Avon, could not have...

An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows...

From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London...

A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first...

When Paul d'Aspremont travels to Naples to join Alicia Ward, his beautiful fiancee, he is surprised to see her grow pale under...

Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But...

Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster,...

Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as...

Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the...

After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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