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A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet , this compilation...
By: Gustave Flaubert

A tongue-in-cheek manual on how servants should cope with the demands of their masters and perform their tasks in ways that will best satisfy their indolence, wastefulness and greed, Directions to Servants takes a caustic and irreverent look at...
By: Jonathan Swift

When an ageing, poverty-stricken nobleman decides to style himself “Don Quixote” and embark upon a series of daring endeavours, it is clear that his ability to distinguish between the fantasy world of literary romance and day-to-day reality has...
By: Miguel De Cervantes

Although ranging considerably in tone, mood and milieu, the fifteen short stories included in this collection all centre around the city of Dublin and its inhabitants at the beginning of the twentieth century. From the unsettling adventure of two...
By: James Joyce

A macabre evocation of obsessive love beyond the grave; a nobleman possessed by the soul of a servant girl; a man’s mysterious phobia of the letter U; and the unexpected gift of everlasting life becoming a dreaded, endless curse – these are just...
By: Igino Ugo Tarchetti

In a series of nine letters, the narrator tells his friend how he introduced Vera Nikolayevna, a married woman who had been forbidden as a child to read fiction and poetry, to the intellectual pleasures of Goethe’s masterpiece. Opening up in front...
By: Ivan Turgenev

This collection brings together four of Copi’s best-known works for stage: Eva Perón , The Homosexual , The Four Twins and Loretta Strong . Set on the borderline of reality and delirium, and featureing such charismatic icons as Eva Perón and Greta...
By: Copi

Céline’s third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol’s Band follows the narrator’s meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank,...
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Hadji Murat, one of the most feared and venerated mountain chiefs in the Chechen struggle against the Russians, defects from the Muslim rebels after feuding with his ruling Imam, Shamil. Hoping to protect his family, he joins the Russians, who...
By: Leo Tolstoy