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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that foregrounds the lives of a provincial French middle‑class family, with…

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume brings together Geoffrey Chaucer’s celebrated Canterbury Tales and a selection of his…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is a five‑act tragedy that begins not with a narrative exposition but with a full theatrical…

Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais

François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel is a five‑volume French work rendered here in English, beginning…

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is a scientific treatise that sets out a theory of evolution by…

Penrod

Booth Tarkington

Booth Tarkington’s Penrod is a comic coming‑of‑age tale set in the American Midwest, and the opening chapter…

Aeneidos

Virgil

Aeneidos est poema epicum Latinum a Virgilio conscriptum, quod Aeneae, Troianorum heroï, fata et itinerum per…

Andersen's Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen

Andersen’s Fairy Tales gathers the Danish author’s imaginative narratives, beginning with the whimsical…

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers presents itself as a comic chronicle of a small English club and its eccentric members as…

Faust: Eine Tragödie [erster Teil]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der erste Teil von Goethes Faust ist ein dramatisches Gedicht, das zugleich als Prolog und als Vorwort zu…

Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dieses Werk ist Goethes dramatischer Erstteil zu „Faust“, ein Gedicht‑ und Theaterspiel, das zugleich als…

Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that immerses the reader in the provincial world of a French middle‑class…

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is the second volume of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s sprawling narrative of the errant knight Don…

Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog)

Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome K. Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)” is a comic travel narrative that begins…

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The volume is a curated selection of Cervantes Saavedra’s own sayings, proverbs and poetic excerpts,…

A Journey into the Interior of the Earth

Jules Verne

Jules Verne’s “A Journey into the Interior of the Earth” is an adventure tale that blends speculative science…

Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 2

Gustave Flaubert

The volume continues Gustave Flaubert’s sprawling, episodic portrait of a restless young man caught in the…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The book is a whimsical fantasy set in an English countryside where animals speak and behave like genteel…

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Moby‑Dick is a sprawling work of whaling fiction that begins with the iconic line “Call me Ishmael.” The…

The island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

The work is a Victorian‑era science‑fiction narrative that begins with a frantic, newspaper‑style report of a…

The Trial

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka’s The Trial is an allegorical work that plunges the reader straight into an absurd, nightmarish…

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Walter Scott

The work is a historical romance that moves from a self‑referential preface into a vivid recreation of…

Dead Souls

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Dead Souls is a satirical novel that launches with a sprawling, almost encyclopedic portrait of Russian…