Classics of Literature

Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

Xenophon

Cyropaedia presents itself as a political romance that dramatizes the upbringing of Cyrus, the legendary…

Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates

Plato

This volume presents three of Plato’s most celebrated dialogues, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, which together…

The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)

Confucius

The Analects presents the sayings and dialogues of Confucius as they were recorded by his disciples, offering…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09

Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s early English output, gathering the unfinished romance of the Romaunt…

Othello

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s Othello is a tragedy that opens amid the bustling streets of Venice, where intrigue and…

水滸傳

Nai'an Shi

Lucian's True History

of Samosata Lucian

Lucian’s True History is a satirical travel narrative that launches its absurd adventure with a bold…

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy

The novel opens with a painstakingly detailed portrait of a rural couple and their infant daughter as they…

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

The work is a Victorian ghost story set against a London Christmas, foregrounding a miserly businessman and…

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam presents the Persian poet‑mathematician’s life and work through a richly…

Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The work is an abstract rather than a literal translation of Seneca’s moral essays, designed to collect the…

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

The play opens with the melancholy Duke Orsino, who muses that music might be “the food of love,” then…

Critias

Plato

Plato’s Critias is a fragmentary dialogue that was meant to be the second part of an unfinished trilogy,…

Grimm's Fairy Stories

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

The volume is a compilation of German folk tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and it opens with a…

The Only True Mother Goose Melodies Without Addition or Abridgement

Unknown

The volume presents itself as a straightforward collection of nursery verses, beginning with a self‑assertive…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — Fiction

The work opens with a brisk autobiographical sketch that situates its author, George Henry Borrow, in the…

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s Phantastes presents itself as a “faerie romance” that invites both men and women into a…

Faust: A Tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This edition presents Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust as a dramatic tragedy, first performed in the…

The Real Mother Goose

The Real Mother Goose is a compendium of traditional children’s verses, presented as a single, uninterrupted…

Protagoras

Plato

Plato’s Protagoras is a Socratic dialogue that opens with a bustling Athenian gathering at Callias’s house,…

The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform

Stephen Langdon

Stephen Langdon’s work presents a scholarly fragment of the Gilgamesh legend drawn from an Old‑Babylonian…

The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère

The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose

This edition presents the Anglo‑Saxon epic Beowulf rendered into modern English prose, accompanied by…