Classics of Literature

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886

Ontario. Department of Education

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886, is a school‑text anthology compiled by the Ontario…

The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony in Eight Fits

Lewis Carroll

The work is a whimsical, eight‑part nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, catalogued under “Nonsense verses” and…

The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

The work is a collected edition of Blaise Pascal’s “Pensées,” the fragmentary apologetic reflections he wrote…

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

Benj. N. Martin

This volume is a curated anthology of American literary excerpts, assembled by Benjamin Nicholas Martin as a…

Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 continues the sweeping historical tragedy that dramatizes…

La isla del tesoro

Robert Louis Stevenson

La obra es una novela de aventuras marítimas que se inscribe dentro del género de historias de piratas y…

Essais de Montaigne (self-édition) - Volume I

Michel de Montaigne

Ce premier volume des Essais de Michel de Montaigne se présente comme une édition soigneusement annotée,…

A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury’s A History of Nineteenth‑Century Literature is a scholarly survey that maps the…

Statesman

Plato

Plato’s Statesman is a late dialogue that continues the philosopher’s habit of pairing subjects within a…

Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics)

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin’s Autobiography is a first‑person chronicle that traces the life of the Philadelphia polymath from…

Cratylus

Plato

Plato’s Cratylus is a philosophical dialogue that turns its attention to the nature of language, presenting…

The Aspern Papers

Henry James

The novel is a work of psychological fiction set in Venice, where a narrator, guided by the resourceful Mrs.

Clásicos Castellanos: Libro de Buen Amor

Juan Ruiz

El Libro de Buen Amor se presenta como una obra de enorme ambición, proclamada por su propio autor como “el…

Le roman de la rose - Tome I

Guillaume, de Lorris; Jean, de Meun

Le Roman de la Rose est un long poème allégorique du Moyen Âge, né d’une collaboration entre Guillaume de…

Menexenus

Plato

The work is a scholarly discussion of the authenticity of Plato’s shorter dialogues, focusing especially on…

Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem that opens with a sweeping praise of the Danes’ heroic lineage, tracing…

The Last Days of Pompeii

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The novel is a historical romance set against the glittering backdrop of Pompeii in the reign of the early…

Bulfinch's Mythology The Age of Fable; The Age of Chivalry; Legends of Charlemagne

Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s three‑part work, The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, offers a…

The Middle English Poem, Erthe Upon Erthe

The volume presents the Middle English poem Erthe upon Erthe in a scholarly edition produced by Hilda M. R.

The Symposium

Xenophon

Xenophon’s Symposium is a single‑book account of a banquet hosted by Callias for the youth Autolycus, in…

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice is a comedy set in Renaissance Venice that weaves together themes of trade,…

The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio

Petronius Arbiter

The work is a Roman satire by Petronius Arbiter, presented here in an English translation that follows the…

The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological

Andrew Lang

The volume is a scholarly undertaking that pairs a fresh prose translation of the so‑called Homeric Hymns…