Originally written in code, Pepy's diary includes his unforgettable eyewitness account of the 1666 fire
Flaubert's most famous short work meditates on the unexamined, futile life of a servant and her beloved parrot.
Based on a St. Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.
Moving, sensual verses on nostalgia and desire by the masterful early twentieth-century Greek poet.
This horrifying, semi-autobiographical feminist story of imprisonment and madness scandalized nineteenth-century society.
Two devastating stories of faith and sacrifice from Balzac's panorama of nineteenth-century French life.
A ghostly child roams the Northumberland moors, while fairytale characters gather at a strange party, in these two Victorian gothic tales.
An uproarious romp of one-upmanship and drunkenness from the nineteenth-century Russian comic genius.
Chekhov perfected the short story, as shown in these three moving miniature dramas of love, dread and lies.