Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and...

The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth – live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father...

When the Selfish Giant decides to build a wall around his garden to prevent the children from playing in it, it becomes barren...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer charts the escapades of a thirteen-year-old boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi. Testing...

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

When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange...

Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as...

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

Anne is an orphan with a penchant for daydreaming and distinctive flaming-red hair that catches the eye of everyone she meets....

Originally conceived by its author as an entertaining story for Alice Liddell, the daughter of an Oxford dean, Alice's Adventures...

Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of...

Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic...

The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century...

This trilogy of short novels, taken as a whole, recounts the young narrator's early life up to his university days, each episode...

Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation, The...

What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and...

These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of...

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of...

First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career....

On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one...

Coming back to the "nest" of his family home in Russia after years of fruitless endeavours away from his roots, Lavretsky decides...

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

This collection of lesser-known early short fiction - ranging from absurd humorous sketches to psychological dramas and tragic...

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

In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been...

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western...

Based on Dovlatov's actual experience of being a prison guard in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, and full of comic and humane detail,...

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

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

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