In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

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

This 20th century masterpiece uses the traditional form of autobiography to explore some very untraditional themes. Under the...

A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction

Strange beasts,...

Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and...

It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will...

The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against...

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of...

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

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most...

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,...

The original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy,...

With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles...

Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succes de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled...

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an...

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

This selection of John Donne's most powerful prose shows that the man remembered predominantly for his poetry was also a...

Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial...

Jane Austen's brilliant, hilarious - and often outrageous - early stories, sketches and pieces of nonsense.

Jane Austen's...

Combining thrilling adventure with scientific facts and a wonder at the natural world, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is...

Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful,...

A rich and unforgettable tragic-comic novel of sexual intrigue and political scheming in nineteenth-century Spain
One of the...

A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and...

A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor...

A rich and enjoyable novel about marriage, love and betrayal, from the great German realist Theodor Fontane.

Charming,...

A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation

Very...

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

A wonderful new selection of Henry James's short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael...