Classics of Literature

New Atlantis

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis” is a fragmentary utopian narrative first published posthumously in 1627 by his…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II

Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s comedy Measure for Measure as it appears in the Cambridge edition…

Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work is a collection of Seneca’s shorter philosophical letters, grouped under the heading “Minor…

La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier

This volume presents an English rendering of the medieval French epic La Chanson de Roland, based on the…

Laws

Plato

Plato’s Laws is a sprawling philosophical dialogue that takes the form of a long conversation among three…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 4 (of 5)

Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

The Tales of the Heptameron, volume 4, continues the framed storytelling that Margaret of Navarre devised for…

The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems

Alexander Pope

This volume presents a compact yet comprehensive selection of Alexander Pope’s most celebrated poems,…

The Argonautica

Rhodius Apollonius

The Argonautica is a Hellenistic epic by Apollonius Rhodius, a poet of the Alexandrian school who lived in…

The Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona Affairs

Petronius Arbiter

The work is a fragment of Petronius Arbiter’s Satyricon, presented here as the fifth volume in the “Crotona…

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens with a biblical quotation that frames the story as a meditation on cycles, generations, suns,…

A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3), From the Renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxy

George Saintsbury

George Saint‑Sburry’s second volume of A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe is a scholarly…

Twas the Night before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas

Clement Clarke Moore

This work is a juvenile poetry collection that centers on Clement Clarke Moore’s famous Christmas verse,…

De Lof der Zotheid

Desiderius Erasmus

De Lof der Zotheid, beter bekend als Moriae Encomium, is Erasmus’ satirische lofzang op de dwaasheid, een…

The King James Bible

The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III

The Works of Horace, with English Notes Twentieth Edition

Horace

Hoc volumen est edita vigesima editione operum Horatii, poetae Romani, cum notis Anglicis.

Much Ado about Nothing

William Shakespeare

Much Ado about Nothing is a comedy of intrigue set in Messina, Italy, where the tangled lives of soldiers,…

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo; Jami Omar Khayyam; Emerson

The volume brings together Edward FitzGerald’s celebrated English rendering of the Persian poet Omar…

The Comedies of Terence

Terence

The work presents a scholarly edition of Terence’s Roman comedies, offering a literal English prose…

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130‑1250 offers a scholarly collection of short texts drawn from a…

Politics: A Treatise on Government

Aristotle

The work is Aristotle’s second treatise, following his Ethics, and it opens by linking moral character to the…

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 4 of 9]

William Shakespeare

This volume presents the Cambridge edition of William Shakespeare’s English drama, the fourth in a nine‑part…