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...

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Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...

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...

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

After travelling...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and...

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

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

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was...

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the...

Celine’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band...

The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

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

Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn’t know that. He does know that he’s just moved to...

When Parker Banks moves with his family from London to New York, he struggles to adapt to his new school and environment. His...

A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul - which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing...