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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

Charles Herbert Sylvester

The volume is a mixed‑genre collection that opens with a dramatic, almost theatrical monologue in which a…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07

The volume opens with a lively, mock‑heroic poem about the medieval town of Weinsberg, where a king’s wrath…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11

The volume presents a scholarly compilation that gathers Dante Alighieri’s early lyrical experiments, his…

The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The volume gathers two of Nietzsche’s polemical essays that confront the myth of a simple personal quarrel…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece

This volume is the first in a series that gathers representative passages of prose from the great writers of…

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I

The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03

The volume opens with a bustling palace scene that immediately immerses the reader in a world of court…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 04

The volume presents a series of extended historical narratives drawn from 19th‑century American…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 06

The volume gathers the memoirs and anecdotes of Pierre de Bourdeille, Abbé de Brantôme, a 16th‑century…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 13

The volume presents a scholarly anthology of historic and literary excerpts, beginning with a detailed…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 12

The volume presents a sprawling anthology of literary excerpts, scholarly notes, and facsimile illustrations…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 02

This volume gathers a series of dated journal entries that trace a single mind’s restless engagement with…

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Charles Herbert Sylvester

The work is a narrative of a pirate expedition set in the late seventeenth‑century Caribbean, presented as a…

The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain

Mark Twain

This volume gathers the complete range of Mark Twain’s published output, organized by the bibliography of…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16

The volume presents a scholarly overview of Aulus Gellius’s Attic Nights, a sprawling anthology of excerpts…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 20 — Miscellaneous Literature and Index

The volume presents a sweeping overview of Joseph Addison’s Spectator, the early‑18th‑century essay series…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 05

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01

Literature and Life (Complete)

William Dean Howells