A meditation on love, money and decadence reflected in the life of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite exploring the New York cafe society scene during the Jazz Age. The story...

A masterpiece of modern drama, The Seagull dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina, her son the...

A member of an anarchist cell and a secret agent Mr. Verloc is ordered to carry out a terrorist attack on Greenwich Observatory by a bomb explosion. The novel is set in London and...

A room with lighted fire, and a door into the open air, through which one sees, perhaps, the trees of a wood, and these trees should be painted in flat colour upon a gold or...

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything'. Some of the most memorable Oscar Wilde epigrams come from his tales and short stories. ...

Thirty five years old Dante is lost in a dark wood, assailed by beasts he cannot evade. Dante is rescued by Virgil, and the two of them begin their journey to the underworld where...

Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is...

In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories...

My dear little Anglo-Saxons, Celt-Iberians and Teutonico-Latin oddities. The time has come to convey, impart and make known to you the dreadful conclusions and horrible...

Tomorrow I shall leave by the Messina boat, which calls at Paola. It is now more than a twelvemonth since I began to think of Paola, and an image of the place has grown in my...