Pliny's letters provide an insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They cover a wide range of topics, from the contemporary political scene to domestic affairs, the education system, the rituals and conduct of Roman religion, the treatment of slaves, and the phenomena of nature.

This title brings together a unique combination of poetry, prose, short stories, plays, critical dialogues and Wilde's only novel, to explore the essence of his work and thinking processes.

This translation of 'The Interpretation of Dreams' is based on the original text. It restores Freud's argument, unmodified by revisions he made following the book's critical reception. It reveals Freud's emphasis on the use of words in dreams.

This selection of 12 of the best Sherlock Holmes stories is designed to give a full sense of their world, taking Holmes's career from its early days to its close. It includes the book-length 'The Sign of the Four' and notes by Barry McCrea that give a sense of the different currents running beneath the stories' surface.

Having long been considered a classic, 'The Princesse de Cleves' is now regarded as a landmark in the history of women's writing. This new translation is accompanied by two of Mme de Lafayette's shorter works, 'The Princesse de Montpensier' and 'The Comtesse de Tende' and ample notes which take account of the latest critical and scholarly work.

This is both the story of a love affair between the Scottish peer, Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and a homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. The author weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, whose publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon.

This selection of Cicero's letters documents his career and simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the collapse of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. It provides a vivid picture of daily life and politics in Rome, the assassination of Caesar, and Cicero's vain resistance to the rise of Mark Antony.

This collection of seven of Schnitzler's best known plays explore love, sexuality and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler's life, to the culture of the time and to Modernism in general.

Richly comic yet gravely moral, this is the story of a young provincial girl's initiation into the ways of the world in 18th-century England. It is at once an attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in society, and a love story.