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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Dual-Language Edition

Translated for the first time into English

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka,...

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, delighting generations of readers with its...

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov is running out of money and has recently divorced from his...

Unique edition presented in its definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume...

This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called...

Dual-language edition.
This collection of Dante Alighieri’s lyrics charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which...

Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, is considered by many to be the first novel in English, and its success was so enormous that...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...

The articles which Stendhal contributed as French correspondent for the London Magazine, New Monthly Magazine and other English...

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde’s drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and...

The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national...

Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and...

During his short and restless life, Percy Bysshe Shelley produced a great number of poems, three verse plays and numerous prose...