Classics of Literature

The Inspector-General

Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The Inspector‑General is a comedy of Russian drama that quickly establishes its cultural weight by…

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes His Fortunes & Adversities; with a Notice of the Mendoza Family, a Short Life of the Author, Don Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, a Notice of the Work, and Some Remarks on the Character of Lazarillo de Tormes

Anonymous

Parmenides

Plato

Plato’s dialogue Parmenides is a philosophic encounter that brings together Socrates, the Eleatic thinkers…

Henri VI (2/3)

William Shakespeare

Cette pièce de Shakespeare, tirée de la trilogie sur le roi Henri VI, s’ouvre sur une scène de cour où le…

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe

The work is a sprawling picaresque narrative that follows the self‑styled Moll Flanders from her birth in…

Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The work is a collection of personal reflections by Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher,…

The Roman Poets of the Republic, 3rd edition

W. Y. Sellar

The work is a scholarly survey of Roman poetry from the early Republic through the closing years of the…

The Apology

Xenophon

Xenophon’s Apology is a first‑person account of Socrates’ reflections on his trial and impending execution,…

The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a self‑styled collection of “exemplary” tales, first issued in 1613, three years before…

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes

Selections from Early Middle English, 1130‑1250. Part 2: Notes is a scholarly apparatus rather than a…

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

James Baldwin

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer is a scholarly anthology compiled by James Baldwin,…

The Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare

The work is a Shakespearean comedy that opens with a raucous backstage scene in which a lord, a pair of…

Alcibiades I

The work is a scholarly edition of Plato’s First Alcibiades, presented with a detailed introduction that…

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

The volume concludes the famed Arabian compilation with the tale of Ma’aruf the Cobbler and his wife Fatimah,…

Philebus

Plato

Plato’s Philebus is a late‑period dialogue that turns its focus from the dramatic flair of his earlier works…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a drama that weaves together themes of succession, murder, revenge,…

The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim

Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1

Mark Twain

The work is a biographical‑fiction narrated by the Sieur Louis de Conte, a self‑styled page and confidant of…

The Winter's Tale

William Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale unfolds as a sprawling tragicomedy that immediately thrusts the reader into a courtly world…

The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes

Phaedrus

This volume presents the complete body of Phædrus’s fables as rendered into English prose by Henry Thomas…

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1

The Mahabharata of Krishna‑Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated into English prose, opens with the aged king…

A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

A. M. Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time opens amid the stark, windswept valleys of the Caucasus, where…

The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes

The Golden Treasury presents itself as a carefully curated anthology of English lyrical poetry and song,…

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm