Fiction

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's...

'Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of...

'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.'A quest for new sensations, and an avowed...

The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's books ever published....

'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since...

'And low, stole o'er the stillness the heartbeats of sleep' In Chapelizod, a suburb of...

'I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling...

'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual...

'I am not an angel nor a genie nor a ghost...I am Erik!'A mysterious Phantom...

'...behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of...

'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of...

The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of...

'Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me...' Raphael...

'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a...

German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a...

'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the...

'It was the garden that did it - and Mary and Dickon and the creatures...

Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving...

'The nearest the general run get to art is Action: sex is their form of...

'a Casement violently opened just over my Head, and a Woman gave three frightful Skreetches,...

'We have heard much of the rage of fanaticism in former days, but nothing to...

'Read, read, read, read, my unlearned reader! read...' Sterne's great comic novel is the fictional...

'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use...

'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It...

'Who is going to marry Eugénie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds...

Three Tales offers an excellent introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest...

`To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in...

This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In...

In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was...

Eugenia, Baroness M"nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her,...

The first of Chekhov's works to be published in a serious literary journal, `The Steppe',...

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest...

When our great monarch into exile went, Wit and religion suffered banishment... At length the...

Based on Hawthorne's own experience of a Utopian socialist community outside Boston, The Blithedale Romance...

'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.'...

'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of...

`Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some...

'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of...

'You shall see nothing, hear nothing, think of nothing but Svengali, Svengali, Svengali!' First published...

'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some...

'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done...

'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange...

'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we...

McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the...

'It was early in a fine summer's day, near the end of the eighteenth century,...