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A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled “A Trivia...

Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journ...

One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain’s irreverent and incisive commentary on ninetee...

From the twentieth century's first great practitioner of the novel of ideas comes a consummate masterpiece of science fiction about a man trapped i...

A cautionary tale of the horrors that can ensue when man experiments with nature, from the father of science fiction, H. G. Wells.  A lonely island...

In the spring of 1804, Lewis and Clark set out on a voyage launched by Thomas Jefferson, to explore the wilderness between the Missouri River and t...

Upton Sinclair's classic revelatory novel about turn-of-the-century business and immigrant labor practices. Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immig...

Rudyard Kipling’s beloved collection of short stories about a boy raised by wolves who learns the Laws of the Jungle.Mowgli, lost in the deep jungl...

James Fenimore Cooper’s classic American story of life on the frontier during the French and Indian War.   The Last of the Mohicans, one of the wor...

Sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving created such staples of American fiction as the stories “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Ho...

Anton ChekhovThe Major PlaysIvanov * The Sea Gull * Uncle Vanya * The Three Sisters * The Cherry Orchard“Let the things that happen onstage be just...

Deep inside the dreaded Bastille, a young prisoner has languished, his face hidden from all, for eight long years. He knows neither his true identi...

In Thomas Hardy's classic novel, an ambitious man discovers that the blind energies and defiant acts that brought him to power can also destroy him...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedy of love, jealousy, revenge, and merriment.Disreputable Sir John Falstaff decides to sed...

A masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid?s day. Horac...

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut The Stolen White Elephant Luck The...

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF ALL TIME—NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD.   Homer’s Odyssey has been called “the first novel,” “the first expression of the mind...

Charles Darwin’s classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the w...

In The Paradiso, Dante explores the goal of human striving: the merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations o...

Filled with the spectacle of the Paris Opera House in the nineteenth century, this classic work of suspense remains a riveting journey into the dar...

More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle established unique standards of philosophic inquiry, observation, and judgment. This book offers a cont...