Dead Dodo Vintage imprint: 13 books

Published in 1875, The vain tenderness is a poetic work of René-François Sully Prudhomme. French poet Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1901. Combining the formal precision of the Parnassian poets with subjects reflecting his keen interest in philosophy...

The British writer Anthony Hope (1863- 1933) is remembered today for his great adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda. Prior to the success of that novel, he worked as a barrister while trying to establish himself as a writer. In the 1890s, he published a series of sketches in the Westminster Gazette. In 1894, these were collected together in book form as The Dolly Dialogues. 

The semi-autobiographical novel written about a rural idyll became a highly successful book which was subsequently reprinted twenty-one times within its first year. This witty and sarcastic novel has kept the attention of readers for over a century, and once you read this title for the first time, you will be unable to stop rereading it for many years to come.

First published in 1905, Princess Priscilla's Fortnight was no doubt written as a true-to-life fairy tale for Von Arnim's children. It tells the story of Priscilla, a hugely popular German princess, who grows tired of her lavish and pampered life. Through the instruction of her mentor, Herr Fritzing,...

Set in England from the early 1870s onward, the novel is about a young, pious woman from a poor working-class family who, while working as a kitchen maid, is seduced by another employee, becomes pregnant, is deserted by her lover, and against all odds decides to raise her child as a single mother. Esther Waters is one of a group of Victorian novels that depict the life of a "fallen woman".

The Captives is penned down by Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, (13 March 1884  1 June 1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist. Its a lugubrious novel, centring on the children of fundamentalists, young adults who struggle to escape emotional attachments to relatives who preach hellfire religion. Maggie,...

It is in reality a gossiping history of California, and is primarily intended for children. The chapter headed “Before the Gringos Came" charmingly describes a passed-away life. “When I was a girl California was a Mexican Republic," it begins. The teller is supposed to be a very old lady looking...

My Lady Nicotine is the first-person account of a man, "a bachelor drifting towards what I now see to be tragic middle age", who is told by his wife-to-be that he can have smoking or her but not both. The fact that he's given up smoking is made clear from the start and the narrative is retrospective:...

This play was produced for the first time at Brighton, 19th February, 1923. Drinkwater was born in Leytonstone, London, and worked as an insurance clerk. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock,...

Prester John was written as a boys' adventure story set mostly in South Africa. It was published in 1910 when Buchan was 35. The South African background was based on the two years from 1901 which Buchan spent as a private secretary to Lord Milner, High Commissioner to South Africa and later governor...

The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and also first discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book...

Jeremy is the story of one year, the eighth, in the life of a happy, normal but imaginative little boy, growing up with his two sisters and his dog, Hamlet, in the Cornish cathedral town of Polchester-by-the-sea, thirty years ago. A delightfully humorous chronicle; told with affection and understanding which mark it as autobiography.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic...