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.
A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official's all-consuming love for his wife.
Entertaining, touching and sharp-tongued letters between the great eighteenth-century composer and his mentor father.
Sentenced to death for corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, Socrates, Plato's teacher, founded western philosophy.
The pioneering nineteenth-century poet's best-known and most darkly imaginative verses on love, death and loss.
Adventures of shipwreck, colossal beasts and fantastical island from One Thousand and One Nights.