A major new celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century

The short story has a rich tradition in French...

Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with...

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the...

Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and...

A classic of Italian literature, this epic and unforgettable novel recounts one man's long and turbulent life in revolutionary...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this...

Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her the next morning. To end...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the...

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist...

Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume...

'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, Guardian

One of the most...

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene...

Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and...

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...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

The Portable Poe compiles Poe's greatest writings: tales of fantasy, terror, death, revenge, murder, and mystery, including "The...

Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this...

The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in...

"The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese...

In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber, is one of the greatest novels of Chinese...

The Story of the Stone (c. 1760), also known by the title of The Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in...

The Story of the Stone (c.1760) is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The first part of the story, The Golden...

One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained...

Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect...

One of the key works in the nineteenth-century battle between science and Scripture, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology...

One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies, Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and...

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted...