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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

This volume is the third installment of the Arabian Nights collection, gathering a series of interwoven tales…

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

Mark Twain

The novel is a humorous adventure that follows the misadventures of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer’s comrade, as he…

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Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose

Fourteenth‑Century Verse & Prose is a scholarly anthology that gathers a wide spectrum of English literary…

Seitsemän veljestä Kertomus

Seitsemän veljestä Kertomus

Aleksis Kivi

Seitsemän veljestä Kertomus on Aleksis Kiven kirjoittama suomalaista fiktiota käsittelevä teos, jonka…

The Decameron, Volume I

The Decameron, Volume I

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron is a medieval frame narrative that gathers a hundred short tales told by a group of young…

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Shakespeare's First Folio

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s First Folio is the 1623 collection that first brought together the playwright’s comedies,…

Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (The Harvard Classics Series)

Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (The Harvard Classics Series)

This volume gathers the medieval chronicles of Jean Froissard, Sir Thomas Malory, and Raphael Holinshed,…

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The German Classics from the Fourth to the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 (of 2)

F. Max Müller

Dieses Werk ist ein historisch‑philologisches Lesebuch, das als Begleitband zu Wilhelm Scherers „History of…

The Praise of Folly

The Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus

The work is a satirical essay in which Erasmus adopts the persona of Folly herself, delivering a mock‑sermon…

Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A.

Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A.

William Shakespeare

This edition presents William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as it was staged for the Princess’s…

Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Erste Fassung 1781)

Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Erste Fassung 1781)

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant eröffnet seine erste Fassung der Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1781) mit einer feierlichen…

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The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Snow‑Image, and Other Twice‑Told Tales gathers a handful of his early sketches and…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

The volume presents a segment of the famed Arabian night‑time anthology, gathering together a series of…

Cover of The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]

William Shakespeare

This volume is a scholarly edition of five of Shakespeare’s comedies, presented in the order they appear in…

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King Henry V

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s historical drama about Henry V, the English monarch who ruled from 1413 to 1422.

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Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

This volume presents three of the most celebrated alliterative poems of the fourteenth‑century West‑Midland…

Hamlet

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is a tragedy by William Shakespeare that centers on the royal family of Denmark, exploring themes of…

The Bucolics and Eclogues

The Bucolics and Eclogues

Virgil

The Bucolics and Eclogues presents Virgil’s pastoral poetry in a series of lyrical dialogues between…

Sejanus: His Fall

Sejanus: His Fall

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson’s Sejanus: His Fall is a dramatic work that sits at the intersection of tragedy and Roman history,…

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Scenes of Clerical Life

George Eliot

Scenes of Clerical Life is a modestly sized collection of three short narratives that sketch the everyday…

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Los Sueños, Volume I

Francisco de Quevedo

Este libro es la primera parte de Los Sueños, la obra satírica principal que Francisco de Quevedo compuso…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

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The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth is a dramatic work that belongs to the Shakespearean canon of tragedies, focusing on…

The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell

The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell is Dante Alighieri’s epic poem rendered into English prose.