Classics of Literature

Le Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table

Sir Thomas Malory

The work is Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, the English epic that gathers the Arthurian romances into a…

Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol. III

The volume is a scholarly anthology of lesser‑known English poets who wrote during the Caroline era, the…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The Economist

Xenophon

The work is a single‑chapter dialogue in which the Athenian philosopher Socrates, accompanied by his young…

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s “Knickerbocker’s History of New York, Complete” is a satirical chronicle that began as a…

The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete

Dante Alighieri

This volume presents Dante Alighieri’s third cantica, the Paradiso, in a complete illustrated edition.

Ion

Plato

Plato’s Ion is a brief Socratic dialogue that opens with Socrates greeting the celebrated rhapsode Ion, fresh…

The Æneid of Virgil translated into English prose

Virgil

Virgil’s Æneid, rendered into English prose by the Oxford Latin scholar John Conington, is presented here as…

Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions from Best Authors for Use in Class Room and on the Platform

The Odyssey of Homer

Homer

The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic rendered into English, recounting the wandering of Ulysses (Odysseus)…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01

This volume is an ambitious anthology that sets out to bring together a broad sweep of the world’s most…

The Georgics

Virgil

Virgil’s Georgics is a didactic poem that opens with a sweeping invocation to the gods of agriculture, Ceres,…

Les liaisons dangereuses Lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiées pour l'instruction de quelques autres

Choderlos de Laclos

Ce roman épistolaire, signé Choderlos de Laclos, se présente comme une collection de lettres circulant dans…

Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground is a whimsical fantasy that begins with a very ordinary garden scene, quickly…

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet

Carlo Collodi

The tale begins in a noisy workshop where a frightened carpenter, Master Cherry, hears a mysterious voice…

The Imaginary Invalid

Molière

The work is a French comedy of the seventeenth‑century stage, known as The Imaginary Invalid, in which…

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory

Dante Alighieri

The Trojan Women of Euripides

Euripides

The Trojan Women is Euripides’ stark, anti‑heroic tragedy that opens on a ruined battlefield just after the…

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

This work is a Victorian ghost story that doubles as a Christmas tale, set in fog‑shrouded London and…

Anthology of Russian literature from the earliest period to the present time, volume 1 (of 2): From the tenth century to the close of the eighteenth century

Leo Wiener

This volume is a scholarly anthology that sets out to give English‑speaking readers a comprehensive overview…

The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek

Homer

This volume presents Homer’s Iliad as rendered in English according to the original Greek text, preserving…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05

Mark Twain

The first five chapters introduce a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure narrated by Huck Finn himself.

I. Beówulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment.

This volume presents the Old English epic Beowulf together with the fragmentary “Fight at Finnsburh,” both…