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Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner

by Henry James & Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

Painted by John Singer Sargent and admired by Sarah Bernhardt, Isabella Stewart Gardner was both popular and unconventional. A passionate art collector and philanthropist, she surrounded herself with artists,...


Bachelors

by Adalbert Stifter & David Bryer

Victor leaves his foster mother's home to begin his working life. His journey takes him to a remote island, where he visits his only relative, an uncle whom he has not met before. The old man, who has never...


Franziska

by Ernst Weiss & Anthea Bell

Following the death of her mother, Franziska turns away from love and follows a grimly determined path to achieve a career as a concert pianist. Her determination takes her from her humble home in a small Czech...


A Life

by Italo Svevo & Archibald Colquhoun

Alfonso, a youthful and poetic bank clerk, has until now been able to maintain his artistic and intellectual sensibilities, undaunted either by the stifling conditions of his employment, or by his increasingly...


The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism

by Jeffrey Meyers & Valerie Meyers

Sampling works by the creator of Holmes and Watson, this collection features Doyle's detective stories, horror tales, journalism, historical stories, and the complete text of his science-fiction novel The Poison...


Short Novels of the Masters

by Charles Neider

A collection of perhaps, the ten finest short novels ever written including Melville, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Chekov, Kafka, D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce.


Young Gerber

by Friedrich Torberg, Anthea Bell & Bell Anthea

Kurt Gerber embarks hopefully on his last year at school, leading to the all- important exam, but finds that he is constantly at odds with the sadistic class teacher Professor Kupfer, known to his students as...


A Lost Lady of Old Years

by John Buchan

Francis Birkenshaw cares nothing for the Jacobite cause until a chance encounter with Bonnie Prince Charlie's beautiful secretary leads to dangerous consequences. A tale of adventure and betrayal on the long...


John Burnet of Barns

by John Buchan

Tells the story of two young noblemen - John Burnet, heir to the ancient house of Barns the last in a long line of Border reivers, and his cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, a dashing, ruthless soldier. Their lifelong...


The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text

by Franz Kafka

Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend...


A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

'Bah! Humbug!'

Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope...


Heidi

by Johanna Spyri

'I would rather be with my grandfather on the Alp than anywhere on earth!'

When Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss mountains with her bad-tempered old Grandfather, everyone in the village feels sorry for her....


Kidnapped

by R. L Stevenson

'For God's sake, hold on!'

On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. He's been double-crossed by his wicked uncle, tricked into a sea voyage and sold...


The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

'There comes a time in every boy's life when when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure'

Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is a hero to his friends and a torment to his relations....


The Distracted Preacher

by Thomas Hardy

From the master of Victorian tragedy, the surprisingly comic adventures of a man caught between romance and religion.

 

When young Mr. Stockdale arrives in a small village to fill in for the Methodist minister,...


Fanfarlo

by Charles Baudelaire & Edward K. Kaplan

A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of history’s most celebrated writers.

 

Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, the great poet penned the only...


The Alienist

by Machado De Assis

A classic work of literature by “the greatest author ever produced in Latin America.” (Susan Sontag)

 

Brilliant physician Simão Bacamarte sacrifices a prestigious career to return home and dedicate himself...


The Modern Library Collection Essential Russian Novels 4-Book Bundle

by Leo Tolstoy & Fyodor Dostoevsky

The enduring genius of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky shines through in this special eBook collection that includes four classic Russian novels—each one recognized as a masterpiece of world literature....


Selected Stories

by O. Henry & Guy Davenport

William Sydney Porter (1862-1910) published all of his work—a novel and some 300 short stories—under the pseudonym 0. Henry. His talent for vivid caricature, local tone, narrative agility, and compassion...


Peter Pan

by Sir James Matthew Barrie

Come Away! Come Away!

The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his mischievous fairy Tinker Bell entice Wendy and her brothers to fly away with them to a...