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.
Austen's riotous early stories of drunks, poisoners and prison-break, written for her family entertainment when she was a teenager.