Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept...

Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions,...

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne, bound for South America. Among them is a young girl, Rachel Vinrace,...

The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with...

The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life -...

'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...'
In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel...

'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...'
After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of...

Austen's most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America's best-loved...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of...

Marx Karl, Engels...

Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories...

'It's you who are the dogs...'
What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued...

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new...

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...

Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull-now a major motion picture...

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

And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too...

'... ever-present, phantom thing;
My slave, my comrade, and my king'
Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary...

'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others' When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master...

'...slowly uncoiling their tentacles...and making a soft purring sound to each other' A disgusting account of a school of giant...

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...

'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The true horror of the trenches is...

A selection of Maupassant's brilliant, glittering stories set in the Parisian beau monde and Normandy countryside. Introducing...

'Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas that you can find...

'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and...

Lewis Carroll's anarchic, disturbing and boisterously funny Alice stories, conjured
up one afternoon to entertain a young girl,...

"Eugene Onegin" is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountain head of their literature. Set in 1820s...

'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'....

'The best thing is to do nothing! Better conscious inertia! So, long live the underground!'
Alienated from society and paralysed...

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a...

Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a colourful evocation of Russia's capital during the short, turbulent period of the first socialist...