When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana...
",He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.", Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all...
'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.'For Elinor...
A stunning new edition of Edgar Allan Poe's most terrifying stories, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman Part of the Gothic series -...
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'I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice...'One of the most moving accounts of being a...
'I pity this house, the curse of God is hanging over it' Two lovers must face tyrants, war, riots, plague and famine as they...
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive....'Two masterly Russian tales of freedom, fighting and great warriors in the...
'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the château...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story...
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia,...
Tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves....
'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger' The French Terror is raging, and few are safe...
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics,...
'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'Richard Hannay...
She drew a long, soft breath, as though the paper daffodils between them were almost too sweet to bearKatherine Mansfield was a magician of the...
What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s...
The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist, from day to day of his starving, people’s participation grew, everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at...
All moonlight is moving, wherever it may be…Japanese gentlewoman Sei Shonagon invites us to look behind the painted screens in the Emperor’s palace and discover...
“All art,” Oscar Wilde once announced, “is quite useless.” Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art – useless,...
Now you slip away in sleep. Your boat is sea-mist, dreaming, by the shore. Spain’s most beloved poet, Federico García Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty...
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