Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new...

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

Four devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred

The first...

Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the...

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature. A storytelling competition within a...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The...

Loosely based on the author's own experiences, The Riddle of the Sands takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth...

As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began...

The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual...

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

Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous, the writings of landmark American feminist and socialist thinker Charlotte Perkins...

In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become...

A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in...

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The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its...

The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and...

Guy de Maupassant's scandalous tale of an opportunistic young man corrupted by the allure of power, Bel-Ami is translated with an...

'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell

Published shortly after...

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent...

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

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

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...

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

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

Poet's Pub is the classic comic novel by Eric Linklater, set in an English pub. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes...

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's...

Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian...

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo...

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is...

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of...