Classics of Literature

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

The novel opens on the mist‑shrouded Thames, where a small yacht carries a handful of men, Marlow, the…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15

The volume is a sprawling anthology that gathers a wide variety of literary fragments, essays, poems, and…

Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose

This volume gathers the chief poems of Old English literature and renders them in modern English while…

The Golden Asse

Apuleius

The work is a Roman novel of the “Metamorphosis” type, attributed to Apuleius and presented here under the…

Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean

Victor Hugo

This volume is a sweeping work of historical fiction set amid the tumult of mid‑nineteenth‑century Paris,…

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes

Aeschylus

This volume presents two of Aeschylus’ most celebrated tragedies, “Prometheus Bound” and “The Seven Against…

The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Rudolf Erich Raspe

The work is a collection of humorous, wildly exaggerated travel narratives that belong to the…

The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe

The work is a richly imagined extension of Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic poem, presented as a longer, lyrical…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem that opens amid the bitter dispute between Agamemnon, leader of the Achaean forces,…

Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno

Dante Alighieri

Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume presents the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer as edited by the Rev. Walter W.

Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete

Dante Alighieri

This volume presents Dante Alighieri’s three‑part epic, rendered in full by Henry Francis Cary.

Les misérables Tome V: Jean Valjean

Victor Hugo

Ce volume poursuit l’épopée historique de Victor Hugo, ancrée dans le tumulte de la Révolution de 1848.

The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story

H. A. Guerber

The Book of the Epic is a scholarly survey that gathers the chief heroic narratives of many cultures into…

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1

Sebastian Brant

The volume presents the first part of Sebastian Brant’s celebrated satire, The Ship of Fools, in a scholarly…

Candide, ou l'optimisme

Voltaire

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, est une satire philosophique qui se lance dès le premier chapitre dans le cadre…

Fasti

Ovid

Carmen Ovidii Fasti est poema didacticum quod, ut indicat praefatio, antiquarum rerum Romanarum, religiones,…

The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

William James Harris

The work is a scholarly bibliography that sets out, in alphabetical order, the first English translations of…

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is a first‑person adventure narrative that blends ship‑wreck survival with a detailed…

Anglo-Saxon Literature

John Earle

John Earle’s Anglo‑Saxon Literature is a scholarly survey that situates the earliest English vernacular…

Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2)

John Addington Symonds

The work is a scholarly survey of Greek poetry, the second volume in a two‑part series by John Addington…

Punicorum Libri Septemdecim

Tiberius Catius Silius Italicus

Liber “Punicorum Libri Septemdecim” est poema epico, compositum a C.

Il Conte di Monte-Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Il Conte di Monte‑Cristò è un romanzo storico che intreccia avventura, vendetta e intrighi marittimi nella…

Henri VIII

William Shakespeare

Cette pièce, signée William Shakespeare, se classe parmi les drames historiques qui mettent en scène le roi…