Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there is another, gentler side to...

The heir to his grandfather’s considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the...

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

Dual-Language Edition.

Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the Dolce Stil Novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting...

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

After travelling...

Happily engaged to the poet Amandus, Fraulein Anna is horrified to discover that a beautiful ring, mysteriously deposited upon...

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...

Celie Rousseau is a talented young artist who, along with her partner Algernon, resorts to petty thieving on the streets of Paris...

It is a variable early summer’s day, and there is an unusual bustle in the grounds of Pointz Hall, a country house in a remote...

Travelling salesman Enrico Gaia decides to play a trick on the conceited ageing litterateur Mario Samigli: he dupes him into...

When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus...

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

When an ageing, impoverished nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embarks upon a series of daring endeavours, it...

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

When the young nobleman Des Grieux lays eyes on the beautiful and charming Manon Lescaut, he immediately falls in love with her,...

The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove...

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...

After a wonderful early life as a young colt on Farmer Gray’s meadows, the stallion Black Beauty is sold to Squire Gordon of...

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the...

When Rachel Verinder's legacy of a priceless Indian diamond is stolen, all the evidence indicates that it is her beloved,...

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

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife....

Three years have passed since the events narrated in Little Women, and the four March sisters are approaching adulthood, with all...

As he was finishing Finnegans Wake, Joyce proclaimed, “I have discovered I can do anything with language I want.” Indeed, with...

Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the...

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love...

In Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are...

A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through...

Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends – Bernard, Louis, Neville,...