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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness is a psychological novella that places its concerns squarely in the realm of imperialist…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a freshly collated text, distinct from the many…

The Monk: A Romance

M. G. Lewis

The Monk is a Gothic romance that blends horror, religious intrigue, and a richly detailed Spanish setting.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

The novel is an adventure story set in the late‑nineteenth century, opening with a meticulous portrait of…

Don Quijote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The call of the wild

Jack London

Jack London’s story opens in the lush, sun‑kissed estate of Judge Miller, where the massive St.

The three musketeers

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical adventure set in early‑17th‑century France, intertwining the political turbulence of…

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a sprawling piece of 16th‑century Spanish fiction that blends social satire, chivalric parody,…

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a 16th‑century Spanish picaresque romance that follows the first “sally” of the self‑styled…

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

Kidnapped thrusts the reader into a fever‑pitch episode of 18th‑century Scottish conflict, blending…

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass is a sprawling celebration of the self and the nation, presented as a series of lyrical…

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is a systematic treatise on how…

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking‑Glass is a fantasy adventure written for children, featuring the imaginative world of…

Candide

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Candide is an eighteenth‑century satirical novella that launches with a crisp, almost theatrical…

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The opening places the reader on a damp, fog‑filled train bound for St Petersburg in late November, where…

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron is a medieval collection of framed tales that begins with a lively dialogue among a group of…

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Laurence Sterne

The work is an experimental, stream‑of‑consciousness novel that treats the very act of narration as a series…

A princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars is Edgar Rice Burroughs’s early foray into planetary adventure, blending science‑fiction…

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

Michel de Montaigne

The work is a complete edition of Michel de Montaigne’s French essays rendered into English, presenting the…

The Aeneid

Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid opens with the battered remnants of the Trojan fleet drifting toward a hostile coast after a…

Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work is an English rendering of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s first part of Faust, presented in the…

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Ovid

The work presents the fifth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in English blank verse, offering a faithful…

Black Beauty: The autobiography of a horse

Anna Sewell

The work is presented as the memoir of a horse, narrated in the first person by a black stallion who recounts…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The play opens on a cold night at the ramparts of Elsinore, where sentinels Francisco and Barnardo exchange…