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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)

The volume presents a sprawling anthology of Arabian folklore, organized as a sequence of numbered tales and…

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad

The work is a sprawling sea‑faring political novel that blends the romance of sailors’ adventures with the…

Le rouge et le noir: chronique du XIXe siècle

Stendhal

Ce roman, classé parmi les Bildungsromans, se déploie d’abord comme une peinture détaillée d’une petite ville…

Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1

Henry Fielding

The work is Henry Fielding’s first novel, a comic and affectionate bildungsroman that follows the adventures…

Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale

Charles Brockden Brown

The work presents itself as a moral experiment in narrative form, an epistolary confession that promises to…

Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1

Michael Faraday

This volume gathers Michael Faraday’s early experimental papers on electricity, first published in the…

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

T. Smollett

The work is a picaresque adventure that follows the reluctant merchant Peregrine Pickle as he abandons a…

Captain Blood

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood opens in the fever‑driven streets of Bridgewater, where a ragged crowd of…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a drama that weaves together themes of succession, murder, revenge,…

Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution

Rafael Sabatini

Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche is a sweeping historical romance that plunges the reader into the ferment of…

The prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

The novel is a swash‑buckling adventure that also functions as a love story and a tale of political intrigue.

The Coming Race

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The Coming Race is a Victorian‑era speculative adventure that blends science‑fiction, utopian vision and…

Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1

Gustave Flaubert

The novel opens aboard a bustling steamboat gliding down the Seine, where a crowd of passengers, artisans,…

The Magna Carta

Anonymous

This work is a facsimile of the 13th‑century charter that King John issued to his subjects, commonly known as…

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

Kālidāsa

This volume presents the English translations of Kālidāsa’s Sanskrit drama and poetry, beginning with a…

Tono-Bungay

H. G. Wells

The novel is a sprawling satire that blends science‑fictional speculation with a biting critique of Victorian…

A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

The novel is a blend of science‑fiction adventure and psychological exploration, set up as a séance in a…

Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a comic, self‑reflective travel narrative…

Faust — Part 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This volume presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s first part of Faust, a German drama that draws on the…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1

François Rabelais

The work is a French Renaissance romance that blends giant folklore with a vivid, satirical imagination.

Faust: Der Tragödie zweiter Teil

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der Text ist ein dramatisches Gedicht, das sich in die Sphären deutscher Sage und Magie einreiht.

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work presented is a translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s early dramatic poem Faust, part 1,…