Classics of Literature

Apology

Plato

Plato’s Apology presents the recorded defence of Socrates at his trial in Athens, framed as a three‑part…

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.

Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist is a seventeenth‑century scientific tract that reads more like a series…

The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1

Alexander Pope

The volume presents a scholarly examination of Alexander Pope’s correspondence, focusing on the tangled…

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

The work is a whimsical fantasy set among talking animals, blending gentle humor with a pastoral English…

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

The novel opens amid a chaotic coach ride, where the heavy‑handed guard and the impatient coachman jostle a…

Aeneidos

Virgil

Aeneidos est poema epicum Latinum a Virgilio conscriptum, quod Aeneae, Troianorum heroï, fata et itinerum per…

The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.

The work is a Middle‑English devotional poem that retells the biblical narratives of Genesis and Exodus in…

On the Nature of Things

Titus Lucretius Carus

The work is a didactic poem that sets out a systematic exploration of the mind‑soul relationship, beginning…

The Satyricon — Complete

Petronius Arbiter

The Satyricon is a Roman work of fiction that blends satire with vivid depictions of everyday life in ancient…

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Hesiod

This volume gathers the surviving fragments of early Greek epic that followed Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey,…

The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes

Terence

The volume presents a literal English prose rendering of Terence’s Roman comedy Andria, accompanied by…

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight is an alliterative romance‑poem from the mid‑fourteenth century, written in…

The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1

Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1 is a work of psychological fiction that opens with an extensive portrait of…

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a fairy‑tale narrative that follows the wooden puppet’s desperate quest to…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

This volume gathers the poems and songs of Scotland’s beloved bard, Robert Burns, presenting the full range…

Andersen's Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen

Andersen’s Fairy Tales gathers the Danish author’s imaginative narratives, beginning with the whimsical…

The Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

The Pickwick Papers presents itself as a comic chronicle of a small English club and its eccentric members as…

The Aeneid of Virgil

Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic poem that recounts the wanderings of the Trojan hero Aeneas as he strives to found…

Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection

Walter Savage Landor

The work is a collection of imagined dialogues and occasional verses that blend personal reminiscence with…

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

Dit is een historische roman van Sir Walter Scott, geschreven in 1819, die zich afspeelt aan het einde van de…

Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 1 (of 2): Books I-III

Edmund Spenser

The work is an early‑modern English epic poem that sets out to present a “true text” of Edmund Spenser’s…

Utopia

More, Thomas, Saint

Thomas More’s Utopia is a sixteenth‑century political satire that begins with a detailed portrait of the…

Les misérables Tome IV: L'idylle rue Plumet et l'épopée rue Saint-Denis

Victor Hugo

Ce quatrième tome poursuit l’aventure épique de Les Misérables en se concentrant sur deux rues parisiennes,…

Faust: Eine Tragödie [erster Teil]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Der erste Teil von Goethes Faust ist ein dramatisches Gedicht, das zugleich als Prolog und als Vorwort zu…