Classics of Literature

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

The work is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in a…

Meditations

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The work is a sprawling autobiographical meditation by Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor whose lineage…

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus Spake Zarathustra is Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche’s philosophical treatise, framed as the posthumous…

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

This edition presents the Old English heroic saga Beowulf in a modern English translation that strives to…

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is a sea‑story that begins not on a distant island but in the modest…

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis is a work of psychological fiction that begins with a startling, almost clinical description of…

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a detective‑mystery story that begins in the familiar setting of 1880s…

Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

Sophocles

This volume presents Sophocles’ Oedipus King of Thebes in a faithful English rhyming‑verse translation,…

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

The novel opens in the quiet, well‑kept village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, where the ever‑watchful…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a work of historical and psychological fiction that foregrounds…

The divine comedy

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem that begins with the narrator’s confession that, at the midpoint of his…

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The novel opens in a July evening of 1805, inside the drawing‑room of Anna Pávlovna Schérer, a well‑connected…

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

The volume presents itself as a labor‑of‑love translation of the Arabian Nights, framed by a lengthy preface…

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift

The work is a satirical travel narrative that presents itself as the manuscript of Lemuel Gulliver, a retired…

The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

Homer

The work presented here is a prose rendering of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, produced by the…

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The opening places the reader in 1584 on the banks of the Garonne, where the modest château of Monsieur St.

Peter Pan: [Peter and Wendy]

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan is a fantasy adventure that begins with a whimsical meditation on childhood and the inevitability…

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is a domestic fiction set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, focusing on the marriage…

Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie

Thomas Mann

Der Roman „Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie“ ist ein Familiendrama, das im 19.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII

Ovid

The work is Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Books I‑VII, a sweeping Latin poem that begins with a grand “Argument” in…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic report of a ferocious storm…