A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens’ greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror.

Presents the nineteenth-century Russian novelist’s classic in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society

In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the head and thrown into a pond. His crime? 

As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death.

Mann began working on The Magic Mountain in 1912, following a few weeks’ visit to a sanatorium in Switzerland.

Kafka’s masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that he thought worthy of publication.

‘One of the few great and perfect works of poetic imagination written during this century’ Elias Canetti

Franz Kafka’s letters to his one-time muse, Milena Jesenska – an intimate window into the desires and hopes of the twentieth-century’s most prophetic and important writer Kafka.