From Louisiana's remote bayous to its gilded cities, five startling stories of awakening by one of fin-de-siecle America's most daring writers.
The great propagandist for Tudor sea power depicts the voyages of the fames explorers who mapped the world.
Bronte's most passionate, powerful poems on death, nature's beauty and the passage of time.
Japan's celebrated Buddhist poet balances the smallness of humanity with nature's epic drama in these magical seventeenth-century haikus.
Composed by a slave in Greek antiquity, some of the most ancient, sharp-witted and mysterious stories ever.
A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official's all-consuming love for his wife.
Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
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.