Classics for pleasure

Playful imaginations. Lucian

Denis Diderot

Thomas Love Peacock

Max Beerbohm

Jaroslav Hašek

Ivy Compton-Burnett

S. J. Perelman

Italo Calvino

Edward Gorey

Heroes of their time. Beowulf

Abolqasem Ferdowsi

The Icelandic sagas

Christopher Marlowe

Émile Zola

Ernst Jünger

James Agee

Love's mysteries. Sappho

Arthurian romances

Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette

Sören Kierkegaard

George Meredith

C. P. Cavafy

Georgette Heyer

Anna Akhmatova

Daphne du Maurier

Words from the wise. Lao-tse

Heraclitus

Cicero

Erasmus

The English religious tradition

Benedict de Spinoza

Samuel Johnson

Everyday magic. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The classic fairy tales

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Prosper Mérimée

Frances Hodgson Burnett

E. Nesbit/John Masefield

Walter de la Mare

Lives of consequence. Plutarch

Girolamo Cardano

John Aubrey

Alexander Pope

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Frederick Douglass

Jacob Burckhardt

Henry James

W. H. Auden

The dark side. John Webster

Mary Shelley

James Hogg

Sheridan Le Fanu

Bram Stoker

M. R. James

William Roughead

H. P. Lovecraft

Traveler's tales. Thomas More

Daniel Defoe

Xavier de Maistre

Jules Verne

J. K. Huysmans

Isak Dinesen

Robert Byron

The way we live now. Petronius

Elizabeth Gaskell

Ivan Goncharov

José Maria Eça de Queiros

Anton Chekhov

Jean Toomer

Willa Cather

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Zora Neale Hurston

Eudora Welty

Realms of adventure. H. Rider Haggard

Arthur Conan Doyle

Rudyard Kipling

H. G. Wells

G. K. Chesterton

Agatha Christie

Dashiell Hammett

Encyclopedic Visions. Ovid

Robert Burton

Edward Gibbon

J. G. Frazer

H. W. Fowler

Ezra Pound

André Malraux

Philip K. Dick