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

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

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

Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there is another, gentler side to...

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

After travelling...

It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote...

As their father is sick, Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel must work to support their family. Despite this life of...

When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it...

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

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

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

When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved,...

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife....

As he was finishing Finnegans Wake, Joyce proclaimed, “I have discovered I can do anything with language I want.” Indeed, with...

A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through...

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

In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to...

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

The Mudfog Papers, a collection of sketches by Dickens published in Bentley’s Miscellany between 1837 and 1838, describes the...

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

The interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has gone on for so long that it has become a subject of mirth in legal circles and...

Liv Bloom’s life is even more complicated than that of your average fourteen-year-old: her father walked out on the family when...

In this open letter to his father – a letter which was never sent – Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply...

The small town of Mordasov is all abuzz at the arrival of Prince K—, a wealthy, ageing landowner, after an absence of several...

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

In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life...

One of the most famous and celebrated Victorian coming-of-age novels, David Copperfield charts the adventures and vicissitudes of...

The story of a naughty wooden puppet who has a penchant for lying and dreams of becoming a real boy, The Adventures of Pinocchio...

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...

In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they...