Classics of Literature

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John Milton

Este texto es una biografía histórica que sitúa al joven John Milton en el contexto familiar y social de la…

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville

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

初刻拍案驚奇

Mengchu Ling

Daisy Miller: A Study

Henry James

The work is a psychological study set amid the genteel tourist world of Vevey, Switzerland, where a bustling…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6

George Gordon Byron

This volume presents the sixth part of Lord Byron’s monumental poem Don Juan, a sprawling satire that was…

Utopia

More, Thomas, Saint

Der Text ist ein frühneuzeitliches Werk über das ideale Staatswesen, das Thomas Morus – ein angesehener…

Troilus and Criseyde

Geoffrey Chaucer

The work is Geoffrey Chaucer’s medieval poem Troilus and Criseyde, a long narrative that opens with a lyrical…

The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

William Shakespeare

The New Hudson Shakespeare presents William Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Cæsar, a drama that intertwines…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is Homer’s epic poem of the Trojan War, rendered here in an English translation that preserves the…

The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan

John Bunyan

The work is a Christian allegorical narrative that begins with a long, self‑referential preface in which the…

Theaetetus

Plato

Plato’s Theaetetus is a middle‑period dialogue that unfolds as a philosophical investigation into the nature…

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow gathers every poem the author chose to preserve,…

Notre-Dame de Paris - Tome 1

Victor Hugo

Ce premier tome s’inscrit dans la lignée des romans historiques de Victor Hugo, mêlant la description…

Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes

Jean de La Fontaine

The book presents a nineteenth‑century English translation of Jean de La Fontaine’s celebrated fables, first…

A history of English literature: A practical text-book

Edward Albert

This work is a practical textbook that sets out a comprehensive survey of English literary history, from the…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens in a richly described Victorian drawing‑room where Lord Henry, cigarette‑smoke curling in…

Timaeus

Plato

Plato’s Timaeus is a philosophical dialogue that ventures into the realm of cosmology, blending abstract…

Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 2

Sir Thomas Malory

The sound and the fury

William Faulkner

The novel is a work of psychological and domestic fiction set in Mississippi, focusing on a family’s tangled…

Little Dorrit

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit is a sprawling Victorian novel that intertwines domestic concerns with a…

Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

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

The City of God, Volume II

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint

The work is a theological treatise that continues Augustine’s famous contrast between the earthly “City of…

Confessiones

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint

Confessiones sunt opus spirituale sancti Augustini, episcopi Hipponensis, qui vixit inter saecula IV et V.

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda

The volume presents a nineteenth‑century English translation of the thirteenth‑century Icelandic saga known…