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

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

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

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

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

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

Presented as a series of letters between the humble copying-clerk Devushkin and a distant relative of his, the young Varenka,...

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

Dual-Language Edition.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This edition contains all the stories originally published under this collection and it's illustrated by David Mackintosh.
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For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core text of military strategy and planning, providing leaders with...

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

When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness...

Set during the Pugachov rebellion against Catherine the Great, The Captain's Daughter was Pushkin's only completed novel and...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the...

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...