Classics of Literature

Faust: a Tragedy [part 1], Translated from the German of Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work presented is a translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s early dramatic poem Faust, part 1,…

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser’s ambitious early‑modern English poem, conceived as a series of…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.

The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne

Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island is a science‑fiction adventure that begins with a dramatic, almost…

Nobody's boy (Sans famille)

Hector Malot

The novel is a French adventure of the mid‑nineteenth century, narrated through the eyes of a foundling who…

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus

This volume presents the English rendering of the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus, a collaborative effort…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron

Lysis

Plato

The dialogue Lysis places Socrates in the company of two Athenian youths, Lysis and Menexenus, as they…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 06

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume presents a sprawling, episodic tale set in a remote coastal inn, where a grizzled, rum‑loving…

Oblomov

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

The novel opens in a cramped yet grand flat on Gorokliovaia Street, introducing Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov, a man…

Anna Karenina, 1. Band

Leo Tolstoy

Der Roman ist ein didaktischer Liebesroman, der das Thema Ehebruch aus der Sicht einer russischen…

Webster & Tourneur

Webster, John; Tourneur, Cyril

The volume presents a scholarly overview of the early‑modern English dramatists John Webster and Cyril…

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

Jules Verne

Ce roman s’inscrit dans le genre de l’aventure et du voyage, comme l’indiquent les sujets « Adventure stories…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 11 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated Into English

The volume gathers the works of three nineteenth‑ and early‑twentieth‑century German writers, Friedrich…

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated

Charles Dickens

The novel opens in a grim workhouse where the newborn Oliver Twist is barely clinging to life, his first cry…

Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

Jules Verne

Ce roman de Jules Verne s’inscrit dans le genre de la science‑fiction maritime, où l’aventure naît d’un…

Confessio Amantis; Or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

John Gower

John Gower’s Confessio Amantis is a Middle‑English poem that frames itself as a moral confession of a…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 (of 10)

The volume opens with a series of numbered tales, beginning with the story of Nur Al‑Din Ali and the damsel…

Sämtliche Werke 9-10: Die Brüder Karamasoff

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Der Roman ist ein didaktisches Werk, das das Leben einer russischen Familie im 19. Jahrhundert beleuchtet.

The Fortunes of Nigel

Walter Scott

The work is a historical novel set in early‑17th‑century Britain, weaving fiction around the real figure of…

The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland is an Old‑French epic poem, rendered here in an English translation that preserves the…

The Swiss Family Robinson: A Translation from the Original German

Johann David Wyss

The Swiss Family Robinson is an adventure novel that places a devoted family in a desperate maritime…

King Horn, Floriz and Blauncheflur, The Assumption of Our Lady

This volume brings together three Middle‑English romances, King Horn, Floriz and Blauncheflur, and The…

The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 01 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 01, opens with a detailed editorial preface that explains the scope…