Read Gulliver's Travels

Dev Patel as Gawain riding to meet his beheading; Lowery's Arthurian mood piece.

Joyce's dense, dazzling single day in Dublin (1922).

A portrait ages while its subject sins; Wilde's only novel.

Diaries, letters and ship's logs assemble the Count; Stoker invented the vampire we have.

Two tramps wait by a tree for someone who does not come; the play of the century.

A gilded statue and a swallow give away his gold leaf and his sapphire eyes to the poor, and both are thrown out.

A Dublin party, a song heard on the stairs, and a husband learning about the boy his wife loved first; the last story in Dubliners.

War has never been so much fun; squads of little men and a graveyard that grows.