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
The provocative early-nineteenth-century essayist casts a blacky comic eye over the aesthetics of murder through the ages.
The iconoclastic German philosopher's blazing maxims on revenge, false pity and the drawbacks of marriage.
Swift's ferocious, landmark eighteenth-century political satire on how to solve a famine in Ireland