Classics of Literature

Galatea

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a scholarly edition of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s early pastoral novel Galatea, presented…

King Richard III

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a historical drama that dramatizes the final years of the…

Among Famous Books

John Kelman

The work is a series of scholarly lectures that set out to examine the enduring conflict between pagan…

Old-Time Stories

Charles Perrault

The volume gathers eleven fairy‑tale narratives, the first eight penned by Charles Perrault, the celebrated…

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Lewis Carroll

Ce texte est une fiction fantastique destinée aux jeunes lecteurs, où l’on suit les premières aventures…

Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose

of Phlossa near Smyrna; Moschus Theocritus; Bion

The volume brings together the bucolic verses of Theocritus, Bion of Phlossa, and Moschus of Sicily, rendered…

The Bucolics and Eclogues

Virgil

Hic volumen est collectio carminum pastoralis a Vergilio composita, quae in lingua Latina celebrat vitam…

Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius

Victor Hugo

The volume is a historical‑fiction portrait of Parisian street life, focusing on the “gamin,” a rag‑clad…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6) Part 2

This volume continues the sprawling night‑long dialogue between Shahrazād and the Caliph Harun al‑Rashīd,…

The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 07 (of 11)

Henrik Ibsen

This volume gathers the later Norwegian dramas of Henrik Ibsen, presented here in English translation.

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2

Mark Twain

The work is a biographical‑fiction rendering of Joan of Arc’s later campaigns, presented as the dictated…

King Lear

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Lear is a tragedy that centers on a monarch’s fraught relationship with his…

The Cid

Pierre Corneille

The work is a dramatic retelling of the life of the legendary Castilian hero known as the Cid, composed by…

The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 2

Sir Thomas Browne

The volume presents Sir Thomas Browne’s eclectic investigations into nature, religion and the human…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I

A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery); Rand, Edward Kennard

The work is a scholarly study of a rare sixth‑century uncial fragment that contains portions of Pliny the…

The Complete Angler 1653

Izaak Walton

The work is a seventeenth‑century treatise on fishing, first issued in 1653 by Richard Marriott in St…

The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04

of Samosata Lucian

The volume presents Lucian’s extended treatise on the dangers of slander, opening with a vivid condemnation…

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology

The volume presents a comprehensive selection of Greek epigrams, each rendered in English translation while…

History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne

Andrew Lang

The work is a scholarly survey of English literary history, stretching from the early Anglo‑Saxon epics to…

The Europeans

Henry James

The work is a comic domestic tale set in early‑nineteenth‑century Boston, where a melancholy lady watches a…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

François Rabelais

This volume is the fourth installment of François Rabelais’s gargantuan saga, a satirical tour de force that…

An Outline of Russian Literature

Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring’s work is a scholarly survey that maps the development of Russian literature from its early…

The Fables of Æsop, and Others With Designs on Wood

Aesop

The volume presents a sweeping collection of Aesop’s fables together with a selection of related tales that…