Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false...

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers' triangle when she uses her wiles to...

Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The...

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than...

An epic journey through Don Quixote's troubled mind, from which five paths to the unknown are opened: to reason, to freedom, to love, to friendship,...

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owner...

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named...

The Picture of Dorian Gray, the seminal work of Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), continues to find new readers and inspire artists and creators...

A look at the intimacy of the US writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), a man infinitely more complex than his public image suggested, through the...

1837. The grueling Caucasian War. The young officer Grigory Pechorin was sent into exile in the active army in the Caucasus for participating in a...

An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.

A compilation of four Mother Goose stories "photographed in three-dimensional animation" and unified by a prologue and an epilogue with Mother Goose...

A portrait of the controversial German writer Ernst Jünger (1895-1998), the great stylist of 20th century German literature.

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine,...

The Kusaribe family is a family of sorcerers under the protection of the ‘Tree of Origins.’ Their princess, Hakaze Kusaribe, was the...

The crown of England has been hotly contested throughout history, and in the Middle Ages, a series of great civil wars became known as the War of the...

Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known...

1837: Another year of the grueling Caucasian war. A young officer, Grigory Pechorin, was sent into exile to the active army for participating in a...

Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain's greatest love poets, John Donne.

An Italian adaptation of Henry James's 1902 novel of the same name. The series is a dramatic interpretation set in Italy, exploring themes of love,...

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps of Ulysses, also known by his Greek name...

This series retraces the origins and journeys of major European works of international significance, whose original manuscript has survived through...