Classics of Literature

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

The novel is an autobiographical‑style bildungsroman that begins with a self‑conscious narrator announcing…

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The work is a 16th‑century Spanish picaresque romance that follows the first “sally” of the self‑styled…

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a work of science‑fiction and Gothic horror that frames its narrative as a…

I. Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment.

This volume presents the Old English epic Beowulf together with the fragmentary “Fight at Finnsburh,”…

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is a retelling of the English folklore surrounding the…

Les trois mousquetaires

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce roman d’aventure historique se situe au cœur de la France du début du XVIIᵉ siècle, sous le règne de Louis…

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott’s work is an autobiographical‑tinged domestic novel that follows the March sisters as they…

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass is a sprawling celebration of the self and the nation, presented as a series of lyrical…

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604

Christopher Marlowe

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, printed in the 1604 quarto, is Christopher Marlowe’s early‑modern…

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey is a satirical novel that also dabbles in gothic romance, set against the backdrop of…

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno

Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno is an English translation of the first part of Dante’s…

The war of the worlds

H. G. Wells

The novel is a science‑fiction war story that begins with a sweeping meditation on humanity’s complacency at…

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Paradise Lost is John Milton’s grand poetic treatment of the biblical Fall, catalogued under subjects such as…

The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle’s systematic exploration of moral philosophy, presented as a companion to…

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3

The Mahabharata of Krishna‑Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 (Books 1‑3) is an English translation of the opening…

Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus

Geoffrey Chaucer

This volume gathers Geoffrey Chaucer’s Middle‑English poems “Boethius” and “Troilus,” presenting them as they…

Candide

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Candide is an eighteenth‑century satirical novella that launches with a crisp, almost theatrical…

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories is a late‑19th‑century work that places its characters in the…

Gevoel en verstand

Jane Austen

Dit werk is een Nederlandse vertaling van Jane Austens eerste roman, waarin de familie Dashwood centraal…

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla is a Gothic novella that blends the conventions of young‑women fiction with a chilling vampire tale.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

The novel is an autobiographical fiction that follows the early life of Stephen Dedalus, a young Dublin boy…

L'île mystérieuse

Jules Verne

Ce roman mêle science‑fiction, aventure et récit de naufrage.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Thomas Hardy

The work is a Victorian‑era didactic novel that weaves together themes of poverty, social hierarchy, and…

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron is a medieval collection of framed tales that begins with a lively dialogue among a group of…