Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpiece The Decameron
Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome's great poet.
Vanity and creeping loneliness permeate these three short stories by the modern master of the form
Ancient Greek myths from The Odyssey telling of battles with deadly beasts and a beautiful enchantress
Considered unpublishable in his lifetime, the Victorian priest groundbreaking, experimental verse on nature's glory and despair
Ranging across Scandinavia, England and Ireland, a Viking-age epic of two poets in doomed pursuit of Helga the Fair
The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blacky comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.
The iconoclastic German philosopher's blazing maxims on revenge, false pity and the drawbacks of marriage.