In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of...

Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep...

Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume...

The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of...

B... , Готье...

Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume...

Dual-Language Edition.

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the...

The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle...

Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his...

When the reporter Edward Malone is sent to interview the formidable Professor Challenger about his accounts of strange...