Disturbing, prescient stories of human conscience and conflicting desires by the pioneer of science fiction.
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.
Drawn from German folklore, dark, fantastical fairy tales of wicked deeds, gruesome punishment and just rewards.
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.