Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to...

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of...

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes

Proust's...

One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumes

Proust's...

Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated...

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming...

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

When young Francis Osbaldistone discovers that his vicious and scheming cousin Rashleigh has designs both on his father's...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling...

Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival...

One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, Romola is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years...

A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting...

A landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the...

Pushkin... , Bazhov...

'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'
In these tales, young women...

From the reign of the Tsars in the early 19th century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, the short story has long...

Ruth Hilton is an orphaned young seamstress who catches the eye of a gentleman, Henry Bellingham, who is captivated by her...

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

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the...

Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's...

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

From early, rhyming works in Love Poems and Others (1913) to the ground-breaking exploration of free verse in Birds, Beasts and...

One of the major poets of Romanticism, Wordsworth epitomized the spirit of his age with his celebration of the natural world and...

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet his writing reveals a...

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his...

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake ((1757-1827) sowed the seeds for Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith...

As Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign, Alfred Lord Tennyson's spellbinding poetry epitomized the Victorian age,...

A phenomenonally precicious schoolboy, Rimbaud was still a teenager when he became notorious as Europe's most shocking and...

This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a...