Classics of Literature

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens

The novel is a Victorian domestic drama that centres on the Dombey family’s commercial empire and the fraught…

Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes

Ovid

This work is a literal English prose rendering of Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, the Roman poet’s instructional guide…

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete

Dante Alighieri

The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot

The work is a modernist collage of poetry and prose, presented as a single, sprawling composition that defies…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 04

The volume presents a series of extended historical narratives drawn from 19th‑century American…

La Ilíada

Homer

Esta obra es la traducción al castellano en prosa de la famosa Ilíada de Homero, centrada en el noveno año de…

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

Jastrow, Morris; Clay, Albert Tobias

This volume presents an academic edition of an early Babylonian fragment of the Gilgamesh Epic, prepared…

The Memorabilia

Xenophon

The Memorabilia is Xenophon’s four‑book recollection of Socrates, presented as a series of dialogues and…

La Tempesta

William Shakespeare

La Tempesta è una tragedia shakespearian che si apre con la furiosa violenza di una bufera in mare, dove il…

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

Aeschylus

The work before you is a scholarly translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, rendered into English rhyming verse…

La vie et la mort du roi Richard III

William Shakespeare

Cette œuvre est la tragédie historique de William Shakespeare consacrée au dernier roi d’Angleterre de la…

The Fables of Aesop Selected, Told Anew, and Their History Traced

Aesop

The volume presents a scholarly edition of the fables traditionally ascribed to Aesop, beginning with a…

The complete works of John Gower, volume 4: The Latin works

John Gower

The volume presents a meticulous scholarly investigation of the life of John Gower, the 14th‑century poet,…

The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts

John Donne

This volume presents the first half of John Donne’s poetic output, assembled from the early printed editions…

The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native is a didactic work of fiction set in the wild heathlands of Wessex, where Thomas…

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Os Lusíadas

Luís de Camões

A obra é um épico poético que celebra as façanhas de heróis portugueses, entre eles Vasco da Gama, e de…

Max und Moritz: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen

Wilhelm Busch

Dieses Werk ist eine humorvolle Kinderpoesie, die in sieben „Streichen“ das ungezogene Treiben von Max und…

On the Sublime

active 1st century Longinus

Longinus On the Sublime is a scholarly treatise on rhetoric that opens with a meticulous front matter: a…

Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great is a two‑part historical tragedy that dramatizes the meteoric…

Meno

Plato

Plato’s Meno is a Socratic dialogue that launches with a terse exchange: Meno asks whether virtue can be…

Catulli Carmina

Catullus, Gaius Valerius; Ellis, Robinson

Hic liber est collectio carminum Gaii Valerii Catulli, poetæ Romani I saeculi BC, auctore Robinson Ellis qui…

Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Kim is a sprawling adventure that follows a half‑English orphan named Kim as he weaves through the bustling…

Father Goriot

Honoré de Balzac

Father Goriot is a French‑origin novel set in the early years of Louis XVIII’s reign, where the cramped,…