The Great Gatsby (1925) is probably the most popular American novel of the twentieth century. This new edition incorporates the...

The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a...

Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set...

Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of...

Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was...

This collection of twenty-six tales features reproductions of the original illustrations by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenz Frolich,...

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group...

Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr, Oscar Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when...

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The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the...

'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.'

F. Scott Fitzgerald's first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers,...

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in...

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'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you...

Twenty Years After (1845), the sequel to The Three Musketeers, is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.
Two...

"He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention."
Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories...

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary...

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They...

In these tales Gogol guides us through the elegant streets of St Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the...

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents...

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you...