Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that...

A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series

Not only had...

As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young...

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character,...

Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest is translated...

Set towards the end of the reign of Henry II of France, The Princesse de Cleves (1678) tells of the unspoken, unrequited love...

It is April 1793 and the final power struggle of the French Revolution is taking hold: the aristocrats are dead and the poor are...

'The Master said, "If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil"'

The Analects are a collection of...

Carpenter Adam Bede is in love with the beautiful Hetty Sorrel, but unknown to him, he has a rival, in the local squire’s son...

Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events...

Henry James's third novel is an exploration of his most powerful, perennial theme - the clash between European and American...

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of...

A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural...

Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its...

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers

Written midway between Brave New World and...

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret,...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher...

The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the basis for a...

This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the...

Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty...

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's...

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society,...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories is a collection of stories that emerged from a profound spiritual crisis, during which...

In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their...

Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply...

Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble...

The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director...

A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...

In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his...

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man’s natural happiness and...