The pioneering nineteenth-century poet's best-known and most darkly imaginative verses on love, death and loss.
Adventures of shipwreck, colossal beasts and fantastical island from One Thousand and One Nights.
Japan's modernist master explores family, art and the fear of madness in exquisite autobiographical pieces and a short story.
A parable of a Russian peasant's bargain with the devil - considered by James Joyce to be the world's greatest story
'The first art historian' explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.
The great Firs World War poet portrays first-hand the horror, devastation and futility of the trenches.
James's troubling late-Victorian myself of an unsolved literary riddle and sudden death has inspired endless speculation.
From the great writer of turn-of-the-century New York, two devastating portraits of lonely widowhood and an unconventional marriage.