A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.

Some of Emily Bronte's most extraordinary poems

Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.

'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.' The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul.

The Old Man of the Moon is Shen Fu's intimate and moving account of his marriage - from early passion to the trials of poverty and separation - and his great, enduring love for his wife in eighteenth-century China.

Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.

The tales of Odysseus's struggle with a man-eating Cyclops and Circe, the beautiful enchantress who turns men into swine.

Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists .

A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.

A selection of personal correspondence between Mozart and his most important mentor and supporter, his father.