Classics of Literature

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault

The volume presents the fairy‑tale collection that made Charles Perrault a lasting favorite of readers,…

The Middle-Class Gentleman

Molière

The Middle‑Class Gentleman is a French comedy of manners by Molière that opens in the bustling drawing‑room…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter presents itself as a richly layered work that weaves together themes of adultery, revenge,…

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616

Christopher Marlowe

The work is Christopher Marlowe’s early‑modern tragedy The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, taken from the…

The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton

The volume gathers the complete poetic output of John Milton, presenting his early “Minor Poems” as they…

The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus, Vol. 1 (of 3)

of Naucratis Athenaeus

The Deipnosophists is a sprawling banquet of erudition compiled by the Egyptian‑born Athenaeus of Naucratis…

The Republic

Plato

Plato’s Republic is a philosophical dialogue that treats politics, justice and education as a single,…

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

Hesiod

The volume presents a nineteenth‑century English rendering of Hesiod’s Theogony and the fragmentary “Shield…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)

This volume presents a newly assembled English rendering of the Arabian Nights, a sprawling collection of…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4

Edgar Allan Poe

The piece is a short‑fiction narrative that opens with a tongue‑in‑cheek “historian’s” preface, in which the…

The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

Homer

The volume gathers Homer’s two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, along with a selection of his shorter…

King Henry V Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre

William Shakespeare

This volume presents William Shakespeare’s historical drama King Henry V as it was staged at the Princess’s…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The volume opens with a scholarly preface that sets out the editor’s purpose: to untangle the tangled history…

The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse

Virgil

Virgil’s Æneid, rendered here in English verse, is a scholarly effort to bring the Roman poet’s national epic…

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1 (of 3) Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together With Some Few of Later Date

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume brings together three of Sir Thomas Browne’s most celebrated writings, Religio Medici, a…

The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

This volume gathers the complete range of Mark Twain’s published output, organized by the bibliography of…

Henri V

William Shakespeare

Cette œuvre est la tragédie historique d’Henri V, roi d’Angleterre, qui retrace les intrigues politiques, les…

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition

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

The Amores; or, Amours Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes

Ovid

The work before you is a literal English prose rendering of Ovid’s Amores, the poet’s celebrated collection…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16

The volume presents a scholarly overview of Aulus Gellius’s Attic Nights, a sprawling anthology of excerpts…

The Odyssey of Homer

Homer

The volume presents a scholarly overview of the many English renderings of Homer’s Odyssey, tracing how each…

The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

Luís de Camões

The Lusiad is Luís de Camões’s grand epic poem that celebrates Portugal’s Age of Discovery, focusing on Vasco…

Der Schatz der Sierra Madre

B. Traven

Der Roman ist ein düsterer Western, der im Grenzstädtchen Oso Negro an der Sierra Madre spielt und von Armut,…