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Only Dull People Are Brilliant At Breakfast Oscar Wilde

Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.

The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

The Death Of Ivan Ilyich Leo Tolstoy

Laying humanity bare, these two devastating stories ask: is it possible to have a good death? And what does it mean to truly live?

Oroonoko Aphra Behn

Written by spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn, this story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of the earliest English novels.

The Queen Of Spades Alexander Pushkin

One of the Russian master's most popular and chilling stories tells of a young card player whose obsession with winning becomes a terrible curse.

The Lifted Veil George Eliot

In this chilling novella of Victorian horror, George Eliot explores clairvoyance, fate and the possibility of life after death.

Lady Susan Jane Austen

Glittering with Austen's subversive young imagination, this wicked early novella features a devious, adulterous anti-heroine.

Daphnis And Chloe Longus

Two young lovers battle pirates, rivals and their own confused feelings in this tender pastoral romance from ancient Greece.

Nonsense Edward Lear

Exuberant and ingenious, Lear's best-loved poems tell of jumblies, quangle wangles and luminous noses.

Flush Virginia Woolf

A gorgeous Vintage Classics edition of Virginia Woolf's lively, witty and insightful 'biography' of the cocker spaniel Flush, loyal companion to nineteenth century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Sandman E. T. A. Hoffmann, E.T.A. Hoffmann

Stealer of children's eyes, the sinister Sandman is one of the most famous creations from the dark gothic imagination of German Romantic E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Typhoon Joseph Conrad

The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea.

Lot No. 249

Arthur Conan Doyle

Lot No. 249 Arthur Conan Doyle

From the master of the detective story and creator of Sherlock Holmes, the first ever tale to feature a supernatural Egyptian mummy.

The Withered Arm Thomas Hardy

A jealous lover's curse and an ingenious party trick feature in these two suspenseful stories set in Hardy's imaginary Wessex.

Green Tea Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Le Fanu

From the pioneer of horror fiction, this tale of a clergyman tormented by a demonic creature is one of the greatest Victorian ghost stories.

Stancliffe's Hotel Charlotte Bronte

These witty, racy vignettes set in Charlotte Brontë's imaginary kingdom of Angria feature rakish dandies, high-society courtesans and the dashing hero Zamorna.

The Stolen White Elephant Mark Twain

From the father of American literature, four sparkling comic tales of extraordinary animals and parables subverted.

A Nervous Breakdown Anton Chekhov

From the supreme artist of the short story, three disturbing tales of supernatural hallucinations, hysterical obsession and moral decay.

Waterloo Victor Hugo

A tense, dramatic account of the Battle of Waterloo - and how a rain shower changed history - from Victor Hugo's epic novel Les Misérables.

Matilda Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley's dark story of a bereaved man's disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over a century.

Tyger, Tyger William Blake

From the great visionary and radical genius of the Romantic age, transcendent verse on heaven and hell, innocence and experience.

White Nights Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Two devastating Russian stories of solitude, unrequited love and depravity from beyond the grave.

Seven Hanged Leonid Andreyev

From their arrest to their final breaths, the last days of seven prisoners condemned to death in Tsarist Russia are described in this visceral, heart-stopping novella.

The Yellow Book Anon

Stylish fin-de-siècle stories, poems and illustrations from the notorious magazine The Yellow Book, which scandalized the Victorians with its avant-garde decadence.

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