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

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

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

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...

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

In ‘The Wave’, a young...

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,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

de Amicis... , Simonin...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dickens... , Halliday...

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

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

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

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

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

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