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The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

The Book Of Tea Kakuzo Okakura

This 1906 guide to the beauty of the tea ceremony is both a paean to the art of simplicity, and a wry critique of the West's view of Japan.

Letters To A Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke

The poet Rilke's lyrical and life-changing advice to an aspiring young writer is among the most inspiring expressions of youthful creativity there has ever been.

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.

Hannibal Livy

One of Rome's greatest historians recounts the military genius Hannibal crossing the Alps with twenty-one elephants and winning the famed Battle of the Trebbia.

Frogs Aristophanes Aristophanes, Aristophanes

This riotous play from ancient Greece's greatest comic dramatist blends fancy dress, earthy slapstick and political debate.

The World Is Full Of Foolish Men Jean De La Fontaine

Lions, foxes and cicadas expose the foibles of humanity in these sparkling 17th-century tales from France's greatest fabulist.

Love That Moves The Sun And Other Stars Dante Dante, Dante Alighieri

Heavenly verse evoking dancing souls and blinding flares from Paradiso - the blazing finale to Dante's Italian masterpiece The Divine Comedy.

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.

My Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun Emily Dickinson

Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America's greatest writers.

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.

Anecdotes Of The Cynics Anon

What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.

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.

A Terrible Beauty Is Born William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats

By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

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

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

To Be Read At Dusk Charles Dickens

Three chilling ghost stories tell of deadly premonitions, dreams intercepted and spectres bearing silent warnings.

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.

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