Presented through an ingeniously overlapping and intertwining series of letters written by six very different characters, The...

Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume...

In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little...

In the 1940s, Picasso wrote two plays in French: the first, Desire Caught by the Tail, was conceived during the German occupation...

Nellie March and Jill Banford manage an ailing Berkshire farm at the time of the First World War, a task which is made all the...

Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage....

When her wealthy family prepares to host a lavish summer party, the young, hitherto sheltered Laura Sheridan suddenly feels a...

The brooding, introverted Count von O— arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live...

A literary classic of Japanese Young Adult Fiction
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The...

Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, The Gods Want Blood centres on the rise to power of the Jacobin sympathizer...

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the...

Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created,...

W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a...

An English aristocrat, Lord Montbarry, abandons his fiancee for an enigmatic countess with a dark past, before moving with her...

Having moved into an abandoned haunted house, the narrator, undaunted by the warnings of the locals, invites a party of friends...

What happens to a vampire when he dies? How does somebody become a werewolf? How can you protect yourself from witches? All of...

When the corpse of Sir Charles Baskerville is found on the grounds of his Dartmoor estate next to a mysterious animal footprint,...

All children dream of having a secret house where they can live on their own, far from any rules and regulations. But not all of...

An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is...

The House of the Dead recounts the story of Alexander Goryanchikov, a gentleman who is sent to a prison colony in Siberia for...

Includes pictures and an extensive section on Dostoevsky's life and works.
After spending several years in a sanatorium...

Sara, the American wife of a French aristocrat, has had two encounters with her compatriot Cedric Killian, one a youthful idyll...

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and...

After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island....

First published in 1797, The Italian, with its archetypal villain Schedoni, its intense romance and its sublime depiction of...

Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the...

A classic collection of animal stories, here presented in its entirity with a beautiful cover illustrated by Ian Beck. It...

Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon...

While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade, the shy and awkward Ryabovich is suddenly...