Luminous and intensely lyrical, Dylan Thomas’ works have captivated generations of readers, inspiring artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Igor Stravinsky, and Phoebe Bridgers. This...
Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict… Hercule Poirot stood on the...
Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction in eight thrilling investigations. This title...
‘I’m not the sort of husband you dream of when you’re walking alone along the avenue in the evening, am I? And it would be...
Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh's. From the humanistic inspiration behind The Potato Eaters to his long-time obsession with painting the...
Lay down all hope, you that go in by me . . .Through the gates of Hell, past whirling hurricanes, leering devils and rivers of...
Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories have lost none of their power to horrify. He remains a destabilizingly terse sketcher out of ideas, a writer who...
‘Of all the sleep a man can have, the fisherman’s sleep is the sweetest. It is the greatest of luxuries – sleep and fishing.’Through tender,...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksMay I remember always when,Your glance in secrecy met mine, And in my face your love was...
No author perfected the twist in the tale better than Roald Dahl. His stories – many of which were filmed as Tales of the Unexpected...
'The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.'Is lying...
Wu Cheng’en’s 16th-century novel Journey to the West is widely regarded as one of the most important Chinese novels ever written. Here, in Julia Lovell’s...
Written in the same period as&,nbsp,Mrs Dalloway&,nbsp,these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the excitement, the fluctuations of mood...
When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But then again, he has never been able to...
'Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days'Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective. Through his powers of...
Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his career as an aviator,...
In October Nights, Gerard de Nerval takes us on a gentle meander through nighttime Paris – a dreamlike journey towards getting lost. Also included in...
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings… First there was the mystery of the film star and...
'My dear friend, he said, life is strange and strange things happen in life'It is a hot July Sunday in Lisbon and our narrator has...
‘And this is fantasy, the flutter, the rapture of fantasy!’A bashful dragon, a lost wood-sprite, the prophet Elijah and the Devil disguised as a middle-aged...
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