'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.'

Often called "the...

'An ass, clothed in the skin of a lion...'

Aesop's animal fables are some of the earliest stories ever told, thought to have...

'... a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food...'

Swift's devastating short satire on how to solve a...

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'

Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories,...

A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official's all-consuming love for his wife.

'Our...

'Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'

The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to...

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human...

'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail...

'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...'

A...

Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.
Introducing Little Black Classics: 80...

A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and...

A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women...

'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia...

"No, no, I've got your word for it, I've got to die... you promised me... you told me..." Turgenev's accounts of hunting in rural...