Hesperus Classics

Published in the U.K. by the Hesperus Press, the Hesperus Classics is a remarkable reissue series. The titles range from minor works by greats such as Charles Dickens (The Haunted House) and Charlotte Brontë to major works by now-neglected authors such as Théophile Gautier and Nikolai Leskov. And the books are further enhanced by forewords by an impressive set of contemporary writers, including Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Umberto Eco, and John Updike. Kudos to Hesperus Press for this worthy initiative!

• Amos Barton, George Eliot — Foreword by Matthew Sweet
• Apology for a Murder, Lorenzino de Medici — Foreword by Tim Parks
• Arctic Summer, E.M. Forster — Foreword by Anita Desai
• Before Adam, Jack London
• Behind a Mask, Louisa May Alcott — Foreword by Doris Lessing
• The Book of the Virgins, Gabriele D’Annunzio — Foreword by Tim Parks
• Brecht’s Lover, Jacques-Pierre Amette
• Butterball, Guy de Maupassant — Foreword by Germaine Greer
• Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches, Virginia Woolf — Foreword by Doris Lessing
• Carmen, Prosper Mérimée — Foreword by Philip Pullman
• Claudine’s House, Colette — Foreword by Doris Lessing
• Colonel Chabert, Honore de Balzac — Foreword by A.N. Wilson
• Coming Back, Edoardo Albinati
• Commonplace, Christina Rossetti — Foreword by Andrew Motion
• Constantinople, Edmondo De Amicis — Foreword by Umberto Eco
• Daughters of the Vicar, D.H. Lawrence — Foreword by Anita Desai
• The Devil’s Pool, George Sand — Foreword by Victoria Glendinning
• The Dialogue of the Dogs, Miguel De Cervantes — Foreword by Ben Okri
• The Diary of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain — Foreword by John Updike
• Directions to Servants, Jonathan Swift — Foreword by Colm Toibin
• A Dog’s Heart, Mikhail Bulgakov — Foreword by A.S. Byatt
• The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky — Foreword by Jeremy Dyson
• The Dream, Emile Zola — Foreword by Tim Parks
• Dubrovsky, Alexander Pushkin — Foreword by Patrick Neate
• The Duel, Giacomo Casanova — Foreword by Tim Parks
• Eureka Author, Edgar Allan Poe — Foreword by Sir Patrick Moore
• A Fantasy of Dr Ox, Jules Verne — Foreword by Gilbert Adair
• The Fatal Eggs, Mikhail Bulgakov — Foreword by Doris Lessing
• Faust, Ivan Turgenev — Foreword by Simon Callow
• Fellow-Townsmen, Thomas Hardy — Foreword by Emma Tennant
• For a Night of Love, Emile Zola — Foreword by A.N. Wilson
• The Foundling, Charlotte Brontë
• The Frozen Deep, Wilkie Collins
• The Ghost-seer, Friedrich von Schiller — Foreword by Martin Jarvis
• The Green Dwarf, Charlotte Brontë — Foreword by Libby Purves
• The Haunted House, Charles Dickens — Foreword by Peter Ackroyd
• History of King Richard III, Sir Thomas More — Foreword by Sister Wendy Beckett
• A House to Let, Charles Dickens
• Hyde Park Gate News, Virginia Woolf — Foreword by Hermione Lee
• In the Cage, Henry James — Foreword by Libby Purves
• Incest, Marquis de Sade — Foreword by Janet Street-Porter
• Incognita, William Congreve — Foreword by Peter Ackroyd
• The Jinx, Théophile Gautier — Foreword by Gilbert Adair
• John the Valiant, Sándor Petofi — Foreword by George Szirtes
• Journey around my Room, Xavier de Maistre — Foreword by Alain de Botton
• The King of Pirates, Daniel Defoe — Foreword by Peter Ackroyd
• Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Nikolai Leskov — Foreword by Gilbert Adair
• The Lake of the Bees, Theodor Storm — Foreword by Alan Sillitoe
• The Last Day of a Condemned Man, Victor Hugo — Foreword by Libby Purves
• Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis, Ugo Foscolo — Foreword by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
• Lesley Castle, Jane Austen — Foreword by Zoe Heller
• Life in the Country, Giovanni Verga — Foreword by Paul Bailey
• Life of a Good-for-nothing, Joseph von Eichendorff
• Life of Castruccio Castracani, Niccolò Machiavelli — Foreword by Richard Overy
• Life of Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio — Foreword by A.N. Wilson
• Lois The Witch, Elizabeth Gaskell — Foreword by Jenny Uglow
• Love and Friendship, Jane Austen — Foreword by Fay Weldon
• Loveless Love, Luigi Pirandello
• The Lover’s Watch, Aphra Behn
• Mademoiselle de Scudéri, E.T.A. Hoffmann — Foreword by Gilbert Adair
• The Man of Fifty, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Foreword by A.S. Byatt
• Memoirs of a Madman, Gustave Flaubert — Foreword by Germaine Greer
• Memoirs of an Egotist, Stendhal — Foreword by Doris Lessing
• A Modern Bestiary – Ars Poetastrica, Alessandro Gallenzi
• Monday or Tuesday, Virginia Woolf — Foreword by Scarlett Thomas
• Mugby Junction, Charles Dickens — Foreword by Robert Macfarlane
• My Discovery of America, Vladimir Mayakovsky — Foreword by Colum McCann
• My Life, Giuseppe Garibaldi — Foreword by Tim Parks
• My Secret Book, Francis Petrarch — Foreword by Germaine Greer
• The Mystery of Cloomber, Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Nightingale Papers, David Nokes
• No Man’s Land, Graham Greene — Foreword by David Lodge
• November, Gustave Flaubert — Foreword by Nadine Gordimer
• On Wine and Hashish, Charles Baudelaire — Foreword by Margaret Drabble
• One Thousand and One Ghosts, Alexandre Dumas
• The Paradise Construction Company, J.G. Nichols
• The Parliament of Birds, Geoffrey Chaucer
• A Perfect Hoax, Italo Svevo — Foreword by Tim Parks
• Pleasures and Days, Marcel Proust — Foreword by A.N. Wilson
• Poems of Solitude, Emily Brontë — Foreword by Helen Dunmore
• Poor People, Fyodor Dostoevsky — Foreword by Charlotte Hobson
• The Popular Girl, F. Scott Fitzgerald — Foreword by Helen Dunmore
• The Portrait of Mr W.H., Oscar Wilde — Foreword by Peter Ackroyd
• The Princess of Mantua, Marie Ferranti
• Prophecies, Leonardo Da Vinci — Foreword by Eraldo Affinati
• Rappaccini’s Daughter, Nathaniel Hawthorne — Foreword by Simon Schama
• Rebecca and Rowena, W.M. Thackeray — Foreword by Matthew Sweet
• The Return, Joseph Conrad — Foreword by Colm Toibin
• The Rich Boy, F. Scott Fitzgerald — Foreword by John Updike
• Ruslan and Lyudmila, Alexander Pushkin — Foreword by Colm Toibin
• The School of Whoredom, Pietro Aretino — Foreword by Paul Bailey
• Scriblerus, Alexander Pope — Foreword by Peter Ackroyd
• The Secret Life of Nuns, Pietro Aretino
• Sheepland, Kamel S. Abu Jaber
• Simonetta Perkins, L.P. Hartley — Foreword by Margaret Drabble
• The Single Hound, Emily Dickinson — Foreword by Andrew Motion
• The Spell, Charlotte Brontë — Foreword by Nicola Barker
• The Squabble, Nikolai Gogol — Foreword by Patrick McCabe
• Story of a Nobody, Anton Chekhov — Foreword by Louis de Bernières
• Talking About It, Tim Parks
• Theseus, André Gide
• Thoughts, Giacomo Leopardi — Foreword by Edoardo Albinati
• Three Years, Anton Chekhov — Foreword by William Fiennes
• The Touchstone, Edith Wharton — Foreword by Salley Vickers
• The Tragedy of the Korosko, Arthur Conan Doyle — Foreword by Tony Robinson
• Transformation, Mary Shelley
• The Way of the Kings, André Malraux — Foreword by Rachel Seiffert
• Who Killed Zebedee?, Wilkie Collins — Foreword by Martin Jarvis
• With the Flow, Joris-Karl Huysmans — Foreword by Simon Callow
• Words are Stones, Carlo Levi — Foreword by Anita Desai
• Zastrozzi, Percy Bysshe Shelley — Foreword by Germaine Greer