In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we...

Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the...

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women...

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

Starving after a harsh winter, the bears descend from the mountains in search of food and invade the valley below, where they...

When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters...

Saddened by the subjugation of Italy under Napoleon, disillusioned with life and racked with loneliness and ennui, university...

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"In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven… two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and...

On a cold morning, at daybreak, the 304th New York Regiment is waiting to engage with the Confederate army. Among the soldiers is...

Meet Miss Charlotte… a modern Mary Poppins who wears a large hat and a crumpled dress that maker her look like a scarecrow, and...

As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on...

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, the author of one of the most poignant and enduringly popular novels of the twentieth century, left...

As a group of Western tourists travel down the Nile on the steamer Korosko towards the historical sites near Egypt's southern...

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

The local landowner Van Cheele experiences an unnerving encounter with a youth sunning himself near a pond, and starts to wonder...

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

A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his...

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

Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the...

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

Published in 1880, one year before Verga’s influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic...

Although he is best known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective...

Have you ever looked up into the sky and wondered about space, astronomy and the universe? Perhaps you have. But you've probably...

A mysterious murder near Esher, a gruesome delivery of two human ears packed in coarse salt, the disappearance of secret...

Dark forces are at work in the House of the Double Axe. Stephan, the thirteen-year-old son of King Minos of Crete, stumbles...

When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him,...

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

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally bankrupt village...

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

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