Four sailors discover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, who was shipwrecked in the...

When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes...

A Village Romeo and Juliet is a bitter-sweet tragedy telling the tale of two young lovers kept apart by a family feud. Inspired...

While on a journey with his wife to Prague for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the...

Eichendorff's prose masterpiece - a picaresque account of the wanderings of a young man who leaves home after a row with his...

After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally bankrupt village...

Paul Scarron’s masterpiece, The Comic Romance, recounts the adventures of a troupe of provincial itinerant actors, skilfully...

Published posthumously, The Red Notebook is an account of the youth of the author of the seminal Romantic novel Adolphe, relating...

Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious...

Based on a true story, The Jew's Beech centres on two brutal murders in rural Westphalia – the first of a local forester and the...

Unsuccessful in his endeavours, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow...

Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As...

Set against the beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz’s...

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in...

When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin’s boarding school for girls in London, she arrives looking rather...

After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane accidentally destroy a carpet in their London home with fireworks, their parents replace it...

The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national...

While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star...

A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day...

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In 1807, Charles Lamb and his sister Mary wrote a collection of stories retelling twenty of Shakespeare's plays for children....

Charles Dickens wrote a number of supernatural and horror stories, some of which were included in his longer works, while others...

Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was...

On a boat in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and their baby brother start exploring a gravel pit not far from their new countryside home,...

The boy who wouldn't grow up, Peter Pan has the power of flight and lives on a magical island. But he is fascinated by Mary...

In order to repay a small debt, the young student Mitya is persuaded by a friend to falsify a bank bond and cash it in. Little...

Written in 1932, but not published until 1962, over twenty years after its author’s death, The Life of Monsieur de Moliere charts...

In the Twilight, the third collection of short stories compiled by Anton Chekhov himself, was his first major success and won him...

The civil servant Ivan Matveich and his wife Yelena Ivanovna are spectators of an exhibition – in a shopping arcade – of a...