The Divine Comedy
£2.99Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in the towering allegory of the medieval imagination.
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Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in the towering allegory of the medieval imagination.

A superstitious schoolteacher courts the local heiress and is chased out of town by a headless horseman — or a rival in a clever costume.

A talkative orphan sent to Prince Edward Island by mistake wins over her adoptive family with sheer force of imagination.

An orphaned, sour-tempered girl discovers a locked, neglected garden and slowly brings it — and herself — back to life.

A Danish prince feigns madness to avenge his murdered father, and talks himself into the most famous indecision in literature.

Nietzsche attacks conventional morality, truth, and philosophy itself, arguing that traditional values are just disguised expressions of power.

A woman confined to a room for her ‘nervous condition’ becomes obsessed with the pattern in the wallpaper, and with what she sees moving behind it.

An orphan boy’s mysterious benefactor transforms his life, in Dickens’ sweeping tale of ambition, guilt, and the true meaning of being a gentleman.

Xenophon’s firsthand account of ten thousand Greek mercenaries stranded deep in Persia, and their desperate march back to the sea.

The tortoise and the hare, the boy who cried wolf, and dozens of other animal fables attributed to a Greek slave, still teaching morals 2,500 years later.

Thoreau retreats to a cabin by a pond to live deliberately, and comes back with a case against the noisy, acquisitive pace of modern life.

Swift’s savage satirical pamphlet proposes solving Irish poverty by eating the children of the poor — a joke sharp enough to still shock modern readers.

The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen — the original tales that made Hans Christian Andersen the world’s best-known writer of fairy stories.

The abolitionist novel that galvanised a nation, following the enslaved Tom through the cruelty and occasional kindness of the antebellum South.

A gothic-novel-obsessed young woman’s overactive imagination gets her into trouble during a stay at a mysterious English abbey.

A disobedient rabbit sneaks into Mr McGregor’s garden and narrowly escapes ending up in a pie.