In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio­syncratic artistic vision found space for...

Contains original illustrations by the author

Written for the poet John Addington Symonds's young daughter Janet while she was...

Contains original illustrations by the author

First published in 1846 under the pseudonym "Old Derry down Derry", A Book of...

A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying...

Never published in its author's lifetime and intended solely for his own children, to whom he read it every Christmas, The Life...

A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his...

What is the nature, essence and definition of a fart? What are the consequences and disadvantages of suppressing one? Why is...

Inspired by Boileau's Lutrin and illustrating the debate within European intellectual circles between the "Ancients", who argued...

A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will...

In response to the dire economic conditions in eighteenth-century Ireland, A Modest Proposal ironically exhorts the poor to...