When Edna Pontellier becomes enamored with Robert LeBrun while on vacation, the wife and mother realizes the full force of her desire for love and fre ...

This unique edition of the most important book in the history of Western civilization offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all E ...

Wilkie Collins's fifth novel, The Dead Secret explores the relationship between a fallen woman, her illegitimate daughter and the recovery of a hidden ...

A parallel-text edition of the poems of Baudelaire with a new translation which restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the fu ...

Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Robin Hard is Tutor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading.

First published in 1572, The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unriv ...

This book contains five stories by Irish author Oscar Wilde and are retold, with an introduction by Oscar Wilde's grandson. The book was edited by Mer ...

Features 5 of the author's best early stories: title selection plus "The Phantom Rickshaw," "Wee Willie Winkie," "Without Benefit of Clergy" and "The ...

The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scene ...