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Charmides
Plato
The work is a scholarly edition of Plato’s dialogues, presented in English translation and accompanied by a…
Crito
Plato
Plato’s Crito is a short philosophical dialogue that opens in the early morning of Socrates’ final days, when…
The Clouds
Aristophanes
The Clouds is a Greek comedy by Aristophanes, presented here in an English translation that preserves the…
ReadThe collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 04 (of 11)
Henrik Ibsen
This volume gathers Henrik Ibsen’s Norwegian dramas translated into English, and opens with a detailed essay…
ReadEdipo rey; Edipo en Colona; Antígona
Sophocles
Esta obra reúne tres tragedias de Sófocles, Edipo rey, Edipo en Colona y Antígona, que giran en torno al mito…
ReadThe Lay of Havelok the Dane
The Lay of Havelok the Dane is a medieval English romance preserved in a single 13th‑century manuscript (Laud…
ReadHistory of English Literature Volume 2 (of 3)
Hippolyte Taine
This volume is a scholarly survey of English literary development, written by the French critic Hippolyte…
ReadComplete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
Plutarch
The third volume of Plutarch’s Complete Works gathers a series of essays and miscellaneous pieces that read…
ReadThe Tragedies of Seneca Translated into English Verse, to Which Have Been Appended Comparative Analyses of the Corresponding Greek and Roman Plays, and a Mythological Index
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The volume presents a scholarly edition of Seneca’s ten surviving tragedies, rendered into English blank…
ReadRubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Rendered into English Verse
Omar Khayyam
The volume presents Edward Fitzgerald’s celebrated English rendering of Omar Khayyám’s Rubáiyát, the Persian…
Apocolocyntosis
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The work presented under the title Apocolocyntosis is a satirical piece traditionally linked to Seneca,…
ReadThe Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands
Samuel Butler
The work is a scholarly monograph by Samuel Butler that tackles the long‑standing question of who authored…
The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 14
John Dryden
The volume is the fourteenth in a comprehensive eighteen‑volume set of John Dryden’s writings, bringing…
ReadLes Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo’s fourth‑fifth volume, subtitled “The Idyll and the Epic,” is a sweeping historical work that…
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Christopher Marlowe
The volume presents the later‑stage publication of Christopher Marlowe’s Jew of Malta, a 1633 quarto printed…
The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2
William Langland
The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2 is a medieval allegorical poem that continues the didactic…
ReadHans Andersen's Fairy Tales
H. C. Andersen
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08
This volume is a sprawling anthology that gathers together a wide variety of literary material from antiquity…
ReadAnne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
The novel is a gently comic portrait of rural life on Prince Edward Island, introducing its world through the…
ReadBilly Budd: And Other Prose Pieces
Herman Melville
The volume gathers Herman Melville’s final prose efforts, beginning with the unfinished novel Billy Budd,…
ReadEnglish Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey
Finley Melville Kendall Foster
This work is a scholarly bibliography that charts every English rendering of Greek literature from the…
The Last Poems of Ovid
Ovid
This volume presents the final collection of Ovid’s poems, the last three books of the Tristia, assembled…
ReadPhysical science in the time of Nero: being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Physical science in the time of Nero presents an English translation of Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales, a…
ReadEl arte de amar
Ovid
El Arte de amar es la obra didáctica de Ovidio que, bajo la forma de poesía elegíaca, expone un manual de…