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The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

Lady Susan Jane Austen

Glittering with Austen's subversive young imagination, this wicked early novella features a devious, adulterous anti-heroine.

The Sea Raiders H. G. Wells

Spellbinding short stories of man-eating squid, magicians and monstrous machines, from the father of science fiction.

The Great Winglebury Duel Charles Dickens

The Maldive Shark Herman Melville

A Hippo Banquet Mary Kingsley

The fearless, pioneering Victorian female explorer describes dodging elephants and fighting off a leopard with a stool in Africa.

The Athiest's Mass Honore de Balzac

A Simple Heart Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert's most famous short work meditates on the unexamined, futile life of a servant and her beloved parrot.

The Nose Nikolai Gogol, Nikolay Gogol

The Reckoning Edith Wharton

The Figure In The Carpet Henry James

James's troubling late-Victorian mystery of an unsolved literary riddle and sudden death has inspired endless speculation.

Anthem For Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen

The Life Of A Stupid Man Ryunosuke Akutagawa

How Much Land Does A Man Need? Leo Tolstoy

How A Ghastly Story Was Brought To Light By A Common Or Garden Butcher'sdog Johann Peter Hebel

The Tinder Box Hans Christian Andersen

The Gate Of The Hundred Sorrows Rudyard Kipling

Opium dens, curses, ghostly tombs – these sinister tales of Imperial India made Kipling's name as a writer.

To-Morrow Joseph Conrad

The Robber Bridegroom Brothers Grimm

Miss Brill Katherine Mansfield

Kansyan From The Beautiful Lands Ivan Turgenev

A Slip Under The Microscope H. G. Wells

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