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

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

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

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

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

The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

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

Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and...

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

Dual-Language Edition.

Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the Dolce Stil Novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting...

This collection contains some of the most important works by one of the twentieth century’s most popular and influential poets....

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

Dual-Language Edition.
Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes,...

Dual-Language Edition.

Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It...

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First published in 1831, and here presented in a dual-language edition with annotations and additional...

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

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

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal’s travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities...

A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired...

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

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

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

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

First published in 1963 and representing Burroughs’s literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of...

Paul Scarron’s masterpiece, The Comic Romance, recounts the adventures of a troupe of provincial itinerant actors, skilfully...

Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious...

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

When Celine’s first novel, Journey to the End of the Night, was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being...

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