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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...

A selection from the major works of the influential Greek philosopherMore than two thousand years ago, Aristotle established unique standards of ph...

A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde's fascinating gothic tale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wil...

It is a masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, its style unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly ...

Witty, informative, and devilishly shrewd, The Prince is Machiavelli's classic analysis of statesmanship and power.“It is best to be both feared an...

Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in the classic satiric comedy of mistaken identityThey are the same age. They look alike. In fact, ...

Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain's classic satiric comedy. They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is b...

In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence ...

Presented here are many of Pope’s principal works, including the delightful mock-epic, The Rape of the Lock, Windsor Forest, Essay on Man, Eloïsa t...

Here is Stephen Crane's masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, together with four of his most famous short stories. Outstanding in their portrayal ...

In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once aga...

This tragic novel of sin and redemption is Hawthorne's masterpiece of American fiction.An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging ven...

A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority...The year is 1792. The French Revol...

Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost, Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary ...

This chillingly prophetic examination of terrorism by the author of Heart of Darkness is the literary precursor to the espionage thrillers of Graha...

Opening the door into the innermost places of the heart, The Secret Garden is a timeless classic that has left generations of readers with warm, li...

Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock H...

Featuring Essays byBenjamin Franklin • Ralph Waldo Emerson • W.E.B. Du Bois  • Albert Einstein • Gloria Steinem • Henry David Thoreau • Martin Luth...

Featuring Essays byBenjamin Franklin • Ralph Waldo Emerson • W.E.B. Du Bois  • Albert Einstein • Gloria Steinem • Henry David Thoreau • Martin Luth...

A new collection: 12 short plays by Tennessee Williams, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein, and more.This introduction to the ever-evolving tradition ...