Classics of Literature

Phaedrus

Plato

Plato’s Phaedrus is a Socratic dialogue that opens with a probing exchange between Socrates and his young…

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a short children’s story that opens with a simple domestic scene: a mother rabbit…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

George Gordon Byron

Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a long‑form poem that treats travel as a vehicle for meditation on…

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney

The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia is a sprawling pastoral romance that opens amid a tangled web of love,…

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel is a work of political and didactic fiction that foregrounds slavery as its…

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Laurence Sterne

The work is an experimental, stream‑of‑consciousness novel that treats the very act of narration as a series…

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World

Jules Verne

The work is a science‑fiction adventure that immerses the reader in the inner workings of a fantastical…

The Republic of Plato

Plato

The work is Plato’s Republic, a foundational treatise of political philosophy that opens with a vivid…

Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Lysistrata is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, translated into English and illustrated by Norman…

Voyage au Centre de la Terre

Jules Verne

Ce roman mêle science-fiction et aventure, centré sur le professeur Otto Lidenbrock, un géologue allemand…

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius

The Consolation of Philosophy is a medieval dialogue in which the imprisoned Boethius, once a celebrated…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes

Edgar Allan Poe

The volume presents the complete oeuvre of Edgar Allan Poe, gathered in five bound parts and indexed for easy…

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]

William Shakespeare

This volume presents the third installment of the Cambridge Edition of William Shakespeare’s dramatic output,…

The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

The work is a collection of Arabian Nights’ entertainments, a compendium of fairy‑tale narratives drawn from…

Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Aesop

The volume presents three hundred fables traditionally attributed to Aesop, rendered into English by George…

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The work is a personal catalogue of the influences that shaped Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor famed for…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem that launches with a bitter clash between the Greek commander Agamemnon and the…

Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell

Dante Alighieri

This volume is Longfellow’s English rendering of the first canticle of Dante Alighieri’s three‑part epic, the…

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3

George Gordon Byron

The third volume of Lord Byron’s collected works gathers a miscellany of poems, speeches, and occasional…

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden opens with a stark portrait of Mary Lennox, an orphaned, sickly child sent from colonial…

Love's Labour's Lost

William Shakespeare

The play opens in the royal park of Navarre, where King Ferdinand gathers his courtiers, Berowne, Longaville…

The Aeneid

Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid opens with the battered remnants of the Trojan fleet drifting toward a hostile coast after a…

Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work is an English rendering of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s first part of Faust, presented in the…

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Ovid

The work presents the fifth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in English blank verse, offering a faithful…