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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy

The Scarlet Pimpernel opens amid the fevered chaos of Revolutionary Paris, where the guillotine’s blade has…

The possessed: or, The devils

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The work is a sprawling piece of Russian political fiction that centers on Stepan Trofimovitch, a self‑styled…

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Mary Wollstonecraft

This work is a polemical treatise by Mary Wollstonecraft, the eighteenth‑century British writer whose life…

Herland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The novel is a speculative adventure that begins with a first‑person narrator recalling a lost cache of field…

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The work is a sprawling, encyclopedic meditation on the whale, presented as a patchwork of lexicons,…

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim is a work of psychological fiction that probes the inner workings of honor, cowardice and…

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.

Euripides

The volume presents a scholarly introduction to Euripides, the Athenian tragedian born on the day of the…

Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone

Sophocles

The volume brings together Sophocles’ three great Theban tragedies, beginning with the harrowing tale of…

The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV

Ovid

The volume presents Henry T. Riley’s literal English prose rendering of Ovid’s Metamorphoses covering Books…

The House of the Seven Gables

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The novel is a historical romance that weaves together the domestic concerns of a New‑England family with a…

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Isaac Newton

Hoc volumine, a Isaaco Newton, philosophia naturalis in mathematicam redacta, primum tractatum de mechanica…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Ce roman s’inscrit dans la tradition du roman domestique du XIXᵉ siècle, où les thèmes de l’adultère, du…

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

Jastrow, Morris; Clay, Albert Tobias

This volume presents an academic edition of an early Babylonian fragment of the Gilgamesh Epic, prepared…

The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories

Mark Twain

The volume gathers a handful of Mark Twain’s shorter works, ranging from the unfinished “The Mysterious…

Father Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

Father Goriot is a French‑origin novel set in the early years of Louis XVIII’s reign, where the cramped,…

Othello

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s Othello is a tragedy that opens amid the bustling streets of Venice, where intrigue and…

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia is an 18th‑century satirical fable that frames a philosophical…

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

The novel is an adventure set in Africa, narrated by the veteran hunter Allan Quatermain as he recounts his…

She

H. Rider Haggard

The novel is a Victorian‑era adventure that blends fantasy, romance and a hint of speculative immortality.

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that opens amid the political machinations of Britain’s noble…

Medea of Euripides

Euripides

The play Medea by Euripides is a Greek tragedy that opens not with the heroic exploits of the Argonauts but…

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit is a sprawling satire that targets the pretensions of English society, the cruelty of…

Erewhon; Or, Over the Range

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler’s “Erewhon; Or, Over the Range” is a satirical work that folds together speculative philosophy…

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is an autobiographical work of domestic fiction set in a nineteenth‑century English mining…