Alma Classics edition of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra material.
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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...

When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, having published only a tiny selection of her verse anonymously in journals and newspapers,...

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...

As Paris is shaken by a spate of murderous robberies, the aristocratic Mademoiselle de Scuderi pens a poem to poke fun at the...

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

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

An enchanting book set in a world where the odd is the ordinary, evil has many faces and love is the most powerful magic of them...

The sequel to Alistair Grim’s Odditorium
Grubb, the young apprentice at Alistair Grim’s Odditorium (a flying house of mechanical...

Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating...

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

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

Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the...

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

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

An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his crotchety widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. His naughtiness knows...

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

Part wolf, part dog, White Fang learns to survive in the freezing wilderness. As well as being forced to confront the harsh...

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

Dual-Language Edition.

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the...

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

Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry...

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

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

Blind, broken by the death of his wife and bitterly disappointed by the...