Classics of Literature

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

Lewis Carroll

This edition presents Lewis Carroll’s whimsical fantasy for children, a tale that begins with a very ordinary…

The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion is a collection of medieval Welsh romances that bridges the world of chivalric adventure with…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 06

The volume gathers the memoirs and anecdotes of Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé de Brantôme, a 16th‑century…

Euthyphro

Plato

Plato’s Euthyphro is a short Socratic dialogue that opens on the porch of the King Archon, where Socrates,…

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of short poems that capture the everyday…

Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative that places its opening deep in the desert landscape of the Near…

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that opens amid the political machinations of Britain’s noble…

Life Is a Dream

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Life Is a Dream is a seventeenth‑century Spanish drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, whose prolific career…

Medea of Euripides

Euripides

The play Medea by Euripides is a Greek tragedy that opens not with the heroic exploits of the Argonauts but…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

This volume is a supplemental collection drawn from the Edward Wortley Montague manuscript of the Arabian…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The New Life (La Vita Nuova)

Dante Alighieri

The New Life is Dante Alighieri’s autobiographical collection of poems and prose that chronicles his youthful…

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read

John Bunyan

The work is a Christian allegory aimed at both adults and children, though the original text contains…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 13

The volume presents a scholarly anthology of historic and literary excerpts, beginning with a detailed…

The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré

Jean de La Fontaine

The volume presents Jean de La Fontaine’s celebrated fables in English verse, rendered by Walter Thornbury…

Tartuffe; Or, The Hypocrite

Molière

Molière’s Tartuffe, The Hypocrite is a French comedy of the seventeenth century, rendered here in an English…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 12

The volume presents a sprawling anthology of literary excerpts, scholarly notes, and facsimile illustrations…

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives

Titus Maccius Plautus

The volume gathers six of Plautus’s most celebrated New‑Comedy adaptations, Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia,…

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

Martin Chuzzlewit is a sprawling satire that targets the pretensions of English society, the cruelty of…

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Laurence Sterne

The work is an experimental, self‑referential narrative that treats the life and opinions of Tristram Shandy…

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is a dramatic tragedy that intertwines the political machinations…

The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes

Petronius Arbiter

The work is a scholarly, essay‑like treatment of prostitution in ancient Rome, framed as an exploration of…

The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English

Sappho

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02

This volume gathers a series of dated journal entries that trace a single mind’s restless engagement with…