Having been accused of theft and hounded out of a religious community many years previously, the weaver Silas Marner now lives...

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...

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

Tales of Adventure and Medical Life, one of the collections Arthur Conan Doyle published at the end of his career, anthologizes...

When the publishers of the Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, brought out the anonymous ‘Sketches of Young Ladies’ in 1837, their...

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

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

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

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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...

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...

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

In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the...

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official’s son, with a view to spying on the father and,...

Once again the eminent detective is presented with a series of seemingly impenetrable cases: an anonymous but illustrious client...

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...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they...

Depicting the adventures of Rat, Mole, Badger and the pretentious Mr Toad, The Wind in the Willows sees these four animals...

Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the...

Unique edition presented in its definitive 1941 version with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume...

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

During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received - as a legacy from a friend,...

After doubts are raised concerning the trustworthiness of Magua, Cora and Alice Munro’s Native American guide, the warrior slips...

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever...

Katy, a twelve-year-old gangly tomboy, dreams of blossoming into a sophisticated young woman, capable of grand deeds and...

Set in the year after the 1929 crash and incorporating many autobiographical elements, 'Babylon Revisited' tells the story of the...

When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are...

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

When the young naturalist Darwin set sail on a round-the-world expedition at the end of 1831, it was only with a vague notion...