A man goes mad because he is happy.

A civil servant behaves like a monster at a wedding-party.

A man is swallowed by a...

The cult novel of fin de siecle decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde

‘It will be biggest fiasco of the year – but I don’t give...

Initially rejected by several printers in Dublin and London for containing 'obscene' content, Ulysses was first published in book...

An original selection of short fiction from one of the greats of Russian literature

A wounded solider vanishes into...

This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a...

This second volume of Tolstoy's shorter fiction, selected by the critic Sharon Cameron, contains 'Family Happiness', 'The Devil'...

The Man Who Loved Islands presents Lawrence's skilled, intimate and lively portraits of humanity. In the title story a man buys a...