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.
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.
'The first art historian' explores genius and madness in Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.
Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.
The great Firs World War poet portrays first-hand the horror, devastation and futility of the trenches.