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
Moving, elegiac verse set in rural landscapes, penned by the grief-stricken Hardy after his wife's death.
A seventeenth-century Spanish priest's shrewd maxims on using guile and pragmatism to succeed in a dangerous world
Moonlight, spring blossom, a woman's hair - a medieval Japanese monk reflects on idle moments and life's fleeting joy.
The visionary nineteenth-century American poet celebrates nature and the human spirit in these verses from Leaves of Grass
Four sparkling nineteenth-century tales of Parisian high society and rural life, from the father of that moder short story.
A heroic tale of love, anguish and the Golden Fleece from the ancient Greek epic Argonautica