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.
These delightful miniature tales of macabre hauntings, monsters and magic tricks are Classic China's greatest stories.
Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland
Pastoral, lyrical verse evoking the rural landscapes and peoples of eight-century China from three of its finest poets
Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife's death.