The intrepid Venetian traveller's observations of a thirteenth-century India filled with lavish jewels, chaste princes, superstitions and naked armies.
This revolutionary summons to workers transformed the modern world and still shapes millions of lives today
A heroic tale of love, anguish and the Golden Fleece from the ancient Greek epic Argonautica
Ancient aphorisms on endurance, self-control and perfect joy, widely acknowledged as the Buddha's own teachings
A bitingly comic portrait of the vulgar Trimalchio and his debauched, drunken Roman banquet, from the outrageous Latin masterpiece The Satyrcon
Sparkling miniature German fables, sketches and tall tales - including Kafka's favourite story.
Andersen's bittersweet fairy tales propelled their troubled author to international fame and revolutionized children's writing.
Opium dens, curses, ghostly tombs - these sinister tales of Imperial India made Kipling's name as a writer