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

For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with...

This edition contains all the stories originally published under this collection and it's illustrated by David Mackintosh.
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While holidaying at a villa on the French Riviera, Dick and Nicole Diver, a wealthy American couple, meet the young film star...

These five stories were collected and published as Tales of Unrest in 1898, shortly before Heart of Darkness, the first of...

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

A murderer is forced to reveal his crime by the sound of a beating heart, a mysterious figure wreaks havoc among a party of...

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...

Dual-Language Edition.
Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes,...

Dual-Language Edition.

Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It...

Dual-Language Edition.

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this...

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

The orphan girl Pollyanna moves in with her strict aunt in New England. Despite a difficult start, Pollyanna’s exuberance and...

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and...

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

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

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a...

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...

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted – through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays,...

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted – through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays,...

One of the many aspects of Alexander Pushkin's immense contribution to Russian language and literature, and perhaps the one he is...

The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth – live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father...

Growing up in a poor New York neighbourhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he...

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

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

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

First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career....

The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the...