He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'
Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous proph
'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'
A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and chang
The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.
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Three disturbing, mysterious and moving stories from Wells, science-fiction pioneer.
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A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.
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The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness"
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Two of Dickens' hilarious early stories from Sketches by Boz: 'The Great Winglebury Duel' and 'Bloomsbury Christening'
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The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.
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Captivating aphorisms illustrating the Buddhist dhamma, or moral system.
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With pathos and humour, Flaubert imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl.
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Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.
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Some of Emily Brontë's most extraordinary poems
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'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'
Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects
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Inspiring, brilliantly written, cantankerous and funny - Walden is both a very specific story about one man's attempt to live the simple life in the wilderness, and the great, founding text both for
The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of paradise and new discoveries that wou
Two lovers must face tyrants, war, riots, plague and famine as they struggle to be together, in this teeming panorama of seventeenth-century Italian life - the original historical novel.
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As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat o
Saved, rescued, fished-up, half-drowned, out of the deep, dark river, dry clothes, hair shampooed and set...
Set in a 1930s Paris of shabby hotel rooms, seedy bars and drunken encounters, Jean Rhy
'Twenty-three dagger thrusts went home as he stood there. Caesar did not utter a sound...'
This vivid, racy account of the men who wielded absolute power over ancient Rome - including maniacs, tyr
'Out of the hideously scarred soil of Flanders rose black, splintered trunks of trees'
In one of the greatest war memoirs ever written, an ordinary German soldier recalls the horror and bloodlust
The best-loved and most widely read of all Japanese poetry collections, the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu contains 100 short poems on nature, the seasons, travel, and, above all, love. Dating back to the seve
A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale.
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Poetry and music have been associated with each other from the very beginning. The Penguin Book of English Song draws together a great variety of English poetry (including Irish, Scots and Welsh writ
Once described as the 'longest and most charming love-letter in literature', the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction and notes by Sandra M. Gilbert in Penguin Clas
This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploratio
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded
'Her fragrant body and burning red lips'
A married couple reveal their darkest sexual fantasies to each other, in this erotic psychodrama of infidelity, transgression and decadence in early twenti
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'It was a dark night, with only occasional scattered lights glittering like stars on the plain'
The aviator and author of The Little Prince describes vast, otherworldly landscapes, crash landings