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

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...

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...

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...

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

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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...

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

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

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