The fearless, pioneering Victorian female explorer describes dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool in Africa.
Horrifying tales of mystery, sickening madness and buried bodies by the master of the macabre.
Demonic horrors and spirits dreamt up by the most exuberant, inventive prose writer of Elizabethan England
Glittering essays by the Renaissance master of the form, exploring contradictions in human thoughts and actions.
One of the most famous Canterbury Tales casts a satirical eye over and marriage in the Medieval Age.
Dark, nightmarish sea stories and poems inspired by Melville's adventures around the world's oceans in a whaler
Two rollicking tales of scoundrels and ne'er-do-wells from the Sketches by Boz that launched Dicken's career
Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpiece The Decameron
Ranging across Scandinavia, England and Ireland, a Viking-age epic of two poets in doomed pursuit of Helga the Fair