The pastoral verse steeped in wit and nostalgia, from one of ancient Rome's greatest poets.
These haunting accounts of rural Russia and its downtrodden inhabitants helped to abolish serfdom in 1861.
By turns rapturous, erotic and despairing, this astonishingly modern verse tells of an ancient Roman poet's all-consuming infatuation with one woman.
Drawn from German folklore, dark, fantastical fairy tales of wicked deeds, gruesome punishment and just rewards.
Exotic creatures and unexplored terrains populate Darwin's account of the Beagle's momentous voyage.
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.