1945年之前

Born in 1890 in Varanasi, Jaishankar Prasad started writing in prose and poetry when modern Hindi Literature was coming out of its cradle. He is reckoned to be one of the progenitors of the …

First published in 1906, White Fang is the companion novel to Jack London’s acclaimed Call of the Wild. The tale follows his through Canada’s frigid Yukon Territory – but the freezing weather and …

Set on a canal linking Glasgow and Edinburgh, Young Adam is the masterly literary debut by one of the most important British post-war novelists. Trocchi’s narrator is an outsider, a drifter working …

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 …

A glorious exercise in cheeky punmanship, The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders sees Jonathan Swift in fine scatological form. Flying by the seat of his pants, the great author treats us to a condensed …

Years after a horrific experiment is performed by a scientist determined to make someone able to perceive the supernatural realm, tragedy begins to descend. A woman, Helen Vaughan, travels across the …

Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman – a professor of black magic – arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear …

Originally published in 1928, and written by journalist Daniel Venegas, Las aventuras de Don Chipote is an unknown classic of American literature, dealing with the phenomenon that has made this …

As a story-writer Premchand had become a legend in his own lifetime. The firmament of Premchand’s stories is vast. In view of variety of topics, he, as though, had encompassed the entire sky of …

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, was a great poet, writer, and journalist. Born on June 27, 1838, in West Bengal’s Kantalpara village, he did his schooling from …