Well, they are gone, and here must I remain

Author	Hans Christian Andersen
ISBN	0141398043

I love the fairy tales by Hans Christian Anderson, I think there really quite enchanting. The Tinderbox is one of the short tales in this edition and it depicts the life of a greedy, and quite cunning, solider. A witch has tasked him with fetching her tinderbox from a well, as a reward he gets to keep the silver...

Author	Hafez
ISBN	0141980265

'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded'

Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in modern Iran.

Introducing Little...

Author	Ovid
ISBN	0141398671

‘Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards . . .’

Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome’s great poet. Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many...

Author	Shen Fu
ISBN	0141397802

Some men are just obsessed with their woman. Indeed, there is only one constant in Shen Fu’s life and that’s his wife Yun. Fate has brought them together and, according to them, will always keep them together. Their love knows no bounds and is immeasurable. Folk law suggests that is the old man in the...

Author	Mary Henrietta Kingsley
ISBN	0141397284

'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing sound, and looking round saw I had dropped in on a hippo banquet...'

Told with verve and self-mocking wit, the adventures of doughty female Victorian explorer Mary Kingsley describe stumbling upon...

Author	Jane Austen
ISBN	0141397071

'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.'

A selection of Austen's dark and hilarious early writings - featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, women breaking out of prison, men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers......

Author	Oscar Wilde
ISBN	1853260665

It was Lady Windermere's last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker's Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess...

Author	Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN	0141397373

This is exactly why I bought this collection: to find authors I may not have normally come across. I love Gaskell’s style of writing, and I will most certainly be reading more of her work in the future. These two stories are everything I adore in Victorian literature; they are gothic and fear evoking,...