From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet...

An embittered Roman general returns from war, having captured the Queen of the Goths and her three sons. Sacrificing the eldest...

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart,...

Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891):...

William Shakespeare is a global icon for his plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet, but his poetic meditations on...

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred...

Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great...

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

Verga... , Tabucchi...

Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and...

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war...

More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before...

William Shakespeare's comic encore for one of his best-loved characters - the rascally Falstaff from Henry IV and Henry V - The...

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and...

Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah,...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional...

Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes...

Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community

Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too...

Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant...

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of...

The poems of John Milton (1608-74) have inspired readers for generations and the selection in this new edition spans his entire...

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction...

One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is...

'Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'
Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens...