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

Often called "the...

Hoodwinkd in faery fancy. This volume contains a selection of Keatss greatest verse including his gothic story in verse The Eve...

'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including '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...

Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a...

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

'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if...

From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.
'Pale terror...

'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...