Classics of Literature

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1

active 14th century; Omar Khayyam Firdawsi; Ḥāfiẓ

This volume gathers the great Persian works that have shaped the literary imagination of the West: the epic…

On Translating Homer

Arnold, Matthew; Newman, Francis William

The work is a scholarly essay on the art of translating Homer into English, written by Matthew Arnold and…

The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01

of Samosata Lucian

The volume presents a scholarly edition of Lucian’s surviving works, beginning with a meticulous preface that…

What Maisie Knew

Henry James

The novel is a domestic drama that opens amid a bitter legal dispute over the custody of a little girl named…

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe continues Daniel Defoe’s long‑running tale of the eponymous…

The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 13

John Dryden

The volume gathers John Dry Dryden’s poetry, presented here in a single, continuous text that opens with an…

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, a drama that weaves together themes of succession, murder, revenge,…

The sacred tree: Being the second part of 'The tale of Genji'

Murasaki Shikibu

The volume presents the second part of Murasaki Shikibu’s celebrated Tale of Genji, a work of psychological…

Shorter novels, vol. 3: Eighteenth century

Johnson, Samuel; Beckford, William; Walpole, Horace

The volume gathers three late‑eighteenth‑century novels that mark a turning point in English fiction.

Molière - Œuvres complètes, Tome 3

Molière

Ce volume rassemble les pièces complètes de Molière, et le troisième tome s’ouvre sur une préface dense qui…

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere

Charles de Coster

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere is a…

The poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

An Antarctic Mystery

Jules Verne

An Antarctic mystery unfolds as a voyage of scientific curiosity and rugged frontier life set among the…

The Maid of Orleans: A Tragedy

Friedrich Schiller

The work is Friedrich Schiller’s dramatic tragedy “The Maid of Orleans,” a stage‑play that opens in a…

Die Abenteuer Tom Sawyers

Mark Twain

Der Roman ist ein humorvoll‑gezeichnetes Abenteuer‑ und Bildungswerk, das das junge Leben im ländlichen…

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume gathers the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge as they appear in the Globe edition edited by J.

Venus and Adonis

William Shakespeare

The work is a poetic dramatization of the mythic love‑triangle between the Roman goddess Venus and the Greek…

A Christmas Carol The original manuscript

Charles Dickens

This work is a Victorian‑era Christmas story set in fog‑shrouded London, where the miserly businessman…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction

The novel opens with a brisk, autumnal scene on the Isle of Wight in the 1860s, introducing Alma Lee, a…

The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers

Pindar

The Extant Odes of Pindar presents the surviving triumphal poems of the 5th‑century BCE Theban lyricist,…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction

The volume opens with a lively portrait of Alphonse Daudet, the celebrated French novelist, whose career…

Homer: The Iliad; The Odyssey

W. Lucas Collins

This volume presents William Lucas Collins’s scholarly edition of Homer’s two great epics, the Iliad and the…

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

This volume belongs to a scholarly series that pairs German literary masterpieces with visual art, aiming to…

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

François Rabelais

The work is the second volume of François Rabelais’s gargantuan saga, a French‑origin fantasy that follows…