'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything...

Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the...

One of the great World War I antiwar novels - honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical

Based on the author's experiences...

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman...

Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in Paris....

Dostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and...

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth...

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honore de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate...

Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as 'Beauty and the Beast' - and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations....

Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from...

A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud...

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and...

A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world's most famous fictional detective, Sherlock...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the...

Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the effects of poverty...

'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's...

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'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token...

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a...

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others.

The...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the...

Mary Shelley's seminal novel of the scientist whose creation becomes a monster

This edition is the original 1818 text, which...

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...

This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the...

'The Boy-scouts mistook my signal, and have killed the postman. I've had very little practice in this sort of thing, you...