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Three Tang Dynasty Poets
'Can I bear to leave these blue hills?' It is a generous selection from three of the greatest and most enjoyable of Chinese poets. Introducing Little...
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Gooseberries
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three...
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The Beautifull Cassandra
'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring...
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A Hippo Banquet
'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a...
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How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring the...
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The Terrors of the Night
'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a magical ability with words, never more so than in...
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Of Street Piemen
'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich.' Radical Victorian reformer Henry...
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Circles of Hell
'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from Dante's Inferno. Introducing Little Black...
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The Tinderbox
'There sat the dog with eyes as big as mill wheels.' Though criticised for their anarchic immorality when first published, Hans Christian Andersen's...
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How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog
'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the butcher's shirt!"' Written for a local German journal...
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Trimalchio's Feast
'I blush to say what happened next.' A satirical portrait of a drunken, orgiastic Roman banquet, hosted by the grossly ostentatious Trimalchio....
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Woman Much Missed
'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a grief-stricken Hardy wrote some of the best verse of his...
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The Eve of St Agnes
'Hoodwink'd in faery fancy...' This volume contains a selection of Keats' greatest verse - including his gothic story in verse, 'The Eve of St...
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How to Use Your Enemies
'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone.' In these witty, Machiavellian aphorisms, unlikely Spanish priest Baltasar Gracian shows us how to...
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A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never...
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Wailing Ghosts
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.' Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden...
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The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue
'In two I'll slice the hair-seat / of Helga's kiss-gulper.' In this epic tale from the Viking Age that ranges across Scandinavia and Viking Britain,...
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A Dead Man’s Memoir
This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by...
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Medea and Other Plays
That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice' "Medea", in which a spurned woman takes...
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