This anthology, the first of its kind, aims to be comprehensive. Valentina Polukhina surveys the entire scene, reading some 1000 collections and manuscripts, and thoroughly investigating what is accessible on the vibrant Russian literary Internet. Th...

In this collection of 23 ingeniously plotted stories, no case is too big, too small, or too bizarre for Holmes the detective. With his trusted and always admiring friend Dr Watson, at his side, they use their unique analytical gifts to confound every...

The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

This quarter-century opened with Janos Kadar exercising a third decade of political power, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of 1956. Hungary, however, was instrumental in the changes of 1989, initiating free elections. The transition to democracy w...

Muriel Spark was a poet before she was a novelist: "All the Poems" presents the full range of the poetry of one of the most acclaimed modern British writers. Here are villanelles, ballads and epigrams, as well as freer forms, all marked by brilliantl...

Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.

A woman about to lose her job as a professor of literature and history delivers a passionate, witty and word-mad monologue in this inventive novel, which was called "brilliant" (The Listener), "dazzling" (The Guardian), "elegant, rueful and witty" (T...

Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of Melancholy" (1621) has cast a long, shimmering shadow, on Milton ("L'Allegro and Il Penseroso" in particular), on the wits of Queen Anne's reign and the beginning of George I's, and on Swift. Doctor Johnson praised it...

Not for sale in Estonia! This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon's 1922 novel boldly appropriates the title and plot of a didactic seventeenth-century epic, re...

Not for sale in Estonia! Aurelia is French poet and novelist Gerard de Nerval's account of his descent into madness – a condition provoked in part by his unrequited passion for an actress named Jenny Colon. One of the original self-styled "bohemian...