Jane Austen was born on the 16th of December in 1775 in Hampshire, England, and quickly began a lifelong relationship with books, becoming a voracious reader and then, as we… Read more »

On this day in 1821, Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France. In our Art of the Novella series, you can find his story A Simple Heart, which was originally… Read more »

“HAVEN’T YOU HEARD OF THE DUEL GOING ON EVER SINCE 1801?” Well, it’s epic and keeps gathering momentum now that we’ve published The Duel by Joseph Conrad as part of… Read more »