First Love

Kafka's classic 1915 novella about Gregor Samsa, who wakes up transformed into a monstrous insect, and the cold reaction of the family he has supported for years.

Franz Kafka

Dickens's 1843 ghost story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly Londoner visited by three Christmas spirits in a single night and led to confront a wasted life.

Charles Dickens

An early Dostoevsky novella from 1848 about a lonely dreamer in St. Petersburg who meets a young woman during four luminous summer nights and falls in love against his own promise.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thomas Mann's 1912 novella about Gustav von Aschenbach, a celebrated German writer whose visit to Venice becomes a slow descent into obsession with a beautiful Polish boy.

Thomas Mann

Saint-Exupéry's beloved 1943 fable about a pilot stranded in the desert and the strange little prince he meets, told with the author's own watercolour illustrations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry