Two rollicking tales of scoundrels and ne'er-do-wells from the Sketches by Boz that launched Dicken's career
The great nineteenth-century German thinker's musings on self-deceit, superstition, art and ambition
Dreamlike, poignant verse on passion, torment and resplendent landscapes from one of the first Romantic poets
Bawdy tales of pimps, cuckolds, lovers and clever women from the fourteenth-century Florentine masterpiece The Decameron
Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome's great poet.
Vanity and creeping loneliness permeate these three short stories by the modern master of the form
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