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.
Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philosophy.
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.