Vintage Classics

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

The Vintage Classics Europeans series – with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury Aging writer Gustave von Aschenbach is disappointed by Venice. The skies are leaden, the air is thick and sultry, and a sickening stench […]

The Vintage Classics Europeans series – with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury. TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY EDITH GROSSMAN Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic […]

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

The Vintage Classics Europeans series – with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST (AUTHOR OF ULVERTON) AND POET ADAM THORPE Madame Bovary begins where many other novels end: with […]

Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan’s greatest modern female writers. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young, charming and sparkling with intelligence as well as beauty. His friend, Mikamé, desires her too but that is not the difficulty. What troubles Ibuki is the curious bond that has grown between Yasuko […]

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Vintage Minis bring you the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human – from birth to death and everything in between.

Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan’s greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must […]