Classics of Literature

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy of the Elizabethan stage, set in the mythic world of ancient Athens and…

Don Juan

George Gordon Byron

This work is Byron’s poetic re‑imagining of the legendary libertine Don Juan, presented as a sprawling,…

The call of the wild

Jack London

Jack London’s story opens in the lush, sun‑kissed estate of Judge Miller, where the massive St.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work is a Victorian‑era psychological thriller that blends science‑fiction speculation with gothic…

The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Diogenes Laertius

The work is a biographical compendium of ancient Greek philosophers, assembled by the 3rd‑century author…

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bleak House is a sprawling Victorian novel that begins amid a relentless rainstorm on the desolate estate of…

Manon Lescaut

abbé Prévost

The work is an eighteenth‑century French adventure romance that begins with a vivid tableau of a bustling…

The complete works of John Gower, volume 2: The English works

John Gower

The volume presents the English portion of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, a fifteenth‑century poem that…

The King James Version of the Bible

The King James Version of the Bible presents the sacred scriptures in the language of early‑17th‑century…

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

The novel unfolds as a tangled tableau of Victorian intrigue, set against the looming stone tower of an…

Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

Edmund Spenser

Spencer’s The Faerie Queene opens as an elaborate allegorical quest, introducing a “Gentle Knight” clad in…

The three musketeers

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a historical adventure set in early‑17th‑century France, intertwining the political turbulence of…

Eloisa: or, A series of original letters

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Eloisa, or, A Series of Original Letters is an epistolary work by Jean‑Jacques Rousseau that unfolds as a…

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce premier tome du Comte de Monte‑Cristo se présente comme une fresque d’aventures et de drames maritimes,…

Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1

Sir Thomas Malory

Le Morte d’Arthur is Thomas Malory’s monumental compilation of Arthurian romances, presented in twenty‑one…

The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The work is Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical treatise on the origins of Greek tragedy, framed by his own…

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake

William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of lyrical poems that juxtaposes the…

Roméo et Juliette Tragédie

William Shakespeare

Cette œuvre est une tragédie dramatique qui se déploie dès le début dans le décor animé d’un carnaval de…

Symposium

Plato

Plato’s Symposium is a classical philosophical dialogue that brings together a group of Athenian thinkers,…

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The novel opens in a bleak, unnamed town where a workhouse, “anciently common to most towns”, cradles the…

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a sprawling piece of 16th‑century Spanish fiction that blends social satire, chivalric parody,…

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World” is a satirical fantasy framed…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer, presented here in an English…

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a drama set in Verona, Italy, that pits the youthful heirs of the feuding…