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...
“All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with an older woman, by...
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings… First there was the mystery of the film star and...
‘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...
An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will… Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of...
'The body was cold as ice, the heart had long ceased to beat: yet there were no other signs of death.'The phantoms and ghouls of...
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksOf course, very few people go through the gate and abandon the beautiful phenomenon of the outside...
The bones were still warm, but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own deadThis spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker showcases...
I am a ridiculous man. They call me mad now. That would be a promotion in rankA delusional man whose strange dream changes his life,...
'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody’s assistance.’ In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsene Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise –...
During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen’s breezy and entirely biased telling of English history, Mary,...
Trotty Veck, an elderly porter, has read so many newspaper reports about crime and immorality that he believes the working classes are irredeemable. But, on...
‘Waking, I cry “Oh, is this your – buried treasure? The light in the heart.”’In these exquisite stories from the genius of English modernism, everyday...
Saadat Hasan Manto, the most widely read and translated writer in the Urdu language, captured the devastation and absurdity of the partition of India and...
Composed in Iceland in the 13th Century, The Prose Edda is the most renowned of all works of Scandanavian literature, taking readers on a voyage...
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me . .. In this glittering new selection of Fitzgerald’s short...
London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists. Frequent bomb threats and disturbances interrupt the lives of the city's...
'What does love fear? Limitation.'Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not...
There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know, it was too subtle and...
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