Classics of Literature

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson is a sprawling nineteenth‑century novel that intertwines legal…

The Imitation of Christ

à Kempis Thomas

The Imitation of Christ is a devotional treatise that emerged in the early fifteenth‑century Latin literary…

The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 3 (of 5)

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

The Tales of the Heptameron, Volume 3, continues Margaret of Navarre’s series of French love stories rendered…

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.

Euripides

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

Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s one‑act tragedy Salomé presents the biblical temptress in a stylised, almost ceremonial…

Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles

The volume is a lively anthology of children’s verse, alphabet lessons, and short narrative rhymes, all…

La Divina Comedia

Dante Alighieri

La Divina Comedia se presenta como una reflexión profunda sobre la propia naturaleza de la poesía medieval,…

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…

Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn

R. W. Chambers

This work is a scholarly study of the Old English epic Beowulf, written by the Anglo‑Saxon specialist R. W.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03

The volume opens with a bustling palace scene that immediately immerses the reader in a world of court…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 6 (of 6)

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights – Volume 6 is a scholarly edition of a…

The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper

Homer

The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English blank verse by William Cowper, is a translation that foregrounds…

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]

William Shakespeare

The volume presents Shakespeare’s “The History of Troylus and Cresseida,” a play first printed in 1609 for…

Het Nieuwe Leven (La Vita Nuova)

Dante Alighieri

Het “Nieuwe Leven” is Dante Alighieri’s eerste poëtische autobiografie, geschreven toen hij nog rond de…

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 Forsyte Saga - Complete

John Galsworthy

History of English Literature Volume 1 (of 3)

Hippolyte Taine

The work is a nineteenth‑century French‑born literary history, translated into English and presented in three…

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…

Rosmersholm: Schauspiel in vier Aufzügen

Henrik Ibsen

Dieses Werk ist Henrik Ibsens Drama „Rosmersholm“ in deutscher Übersetzung, aufgebaut in vier Akten.

The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original

This edition presents a fresh English rendering of the medieval German epic Nibelungenlied, deliberately set…

"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays

The volume gathers a selection of English mystery and miracle‑plays that once animated the streets of…

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The play opens in the bustling streets of Venice, where friends Solanio and Salarino tease the melancholy…

A Journal of the Plague Year Being Observations or Memorials of the Most Remarkable Occurrences, as Well Public as Private, Which Happened in London During the Last Great Visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London

Daniel Defoe

A Journal of the Plague Year is Daniel De Foe’s quasi‑historical account of the 1665 epidemic that swept…

The Odyssey

Homer

The work before you is a translation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, presented alongside a scholarly essay…