Beloved in Christmases past and sure to remain a favourite in Christmases of the future, Dickens popular holiday tale is the perfect Christmas present. The uplifting tale follows the mysterious and magical events that transform the miserly, miserable...

Based on the brothers first volume of folk tales, Childrens and Household Stories, this collection features many of the Grimms most popular retellings, as well as some lesser-known ones. The tales include "The Frog Prince", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Rapunz...

Since 1903, the escapades of Mole, his friend Water Rat, shy Badger, and Toad of Toad Hall have delighted children, and adults, too. Follow the winning foursome through the seasons as they sail the river, get lost in the Wild Wood, take off on a merr...

To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal...

Not for sale in Estonia! A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics, "The Heresiarch & Co." was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his en...

"After" is haunted by a traumatic memory. A woman re-enters the life of a man after fifteen years – for vengeance? for reconciliation? Or is her return only imagined? Gabriel Josipovici's taut novel draws the reader deep into a relationship, the vola...

The characters in David Constantine's remarkable new collection are united by an urge to absent themselves, to abscond from the intolerable pressures of normal life and withdraw into strange ideas, political causes, even private languages. Viewed fro...

Ford Madox Ford spent his last years in the south of France, near Toulon. In "Provence" (1935), written four years before his death, he explores both the place and the idea of it: "not a country nor the home of a race, but a frame of mind". Suffused...

Told is about the art of story, not the science. It defines the twenty great principles of storytelling and then shows how they work by weaving them into 30 illustrated short stories that vary in format from poetry to screenplay. From genre to premi...

"White Guard", Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Russian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into...