After her parents die of cholera in India, Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in his gloomy house in Yorkshire, where she...

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

Life of Dante brings together the earliest accounts of Dante available, putting the celebratory essay of literary genius Giovanni...

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

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...

The shop owner Adolf Verloc, member of an anarchist group and secret agent for a foreign government, is summoned to meet Mr...

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,...

Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage....

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

It is late August 1939: Britain is on the brink of war, and preparations are under way to evacuate London's children to the...

Monroe Stahr is a film producer at the height of his career, revered by the industry and in control of every aspect of his...

Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia...

This volume, first published in 1856, includes three of the tales widely considered to be among Melville’s masterpieces. In...

A celebrated journalist in his lifetime, Ambrose Bierce was the author of sardonic, mischievous definitions of words that...

First published in 1963 and representing Burroughs’s literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of...

A carriage transporting ten passengers fleeing from Rouen is stopped at a village inn by Prussian soldiers, who decide to detain...

On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated,...

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that...

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

Having grown up in London and rural southern England, Margaret Hale moves with her father to the northern industrial city of...

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...

A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will...

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...

When Maya and her family move to the countryside, strange things start to happen at night. Who is it that keeps tidying the house...

Published soon after Fitzgerald’s debut novel This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers was the author’s first collection...

Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society ? obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification ?...