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The best of American short fictionSpanning over 100 years of literary history, here are 33 of the finest short stories by Washington Irving * Natha...

For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendo...

One of the crowning achievements of medieval literature, The Song of Roland tells the story of the battle of Roncesvals in 778 and enters into the...

The Signet Classic Shakespeare Series—the work of the world’s greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s ...

With an introduction by W.H. Auden and commentary from Helen Vendler, among others, this volume presents all of Shakeseare's non-dramatic poetry in...

The Sorrows of Young Werther brings to life an idyllic German village where a youth on vacation meets and falls for lovely Charlotte. The tragedy u...

First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history—it helped alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earn...

One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century by Nobel Prize–winner William Faulkner.First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury ...

In this brilliant novel, Paul Laurence Dunbar presents a grim, ironic look at the urban black experience. The story of a displaced Southern family'...

Wonderfully illustrated tales that transport you back to the enchanting world of King Arthur and his Round Table.In Howard Pyle’s classic retelling...

Helen Keller's triumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published wh...

Ernest Hemingway's quintessential story of the Lost Generation   With a new introduction by Maria Hinojosa, Emmy Award-winning journalist and ancho...

The classic adventure tale of a brave family who must come together to survive in their new deserted island home.Swept off course by a raging storm...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's controversial comedy.Featuring the tumultuous relationship of Petruchio and the headstrong Kat...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's fantastical play that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.Prospero—sorcerer and rightful D...

The classic adventure from the author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Man in the Iron Mask. In this swashbuckling epic, d’Artagnan, not yet tw...

The revolutionary novel that catapulted readers into the future, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. “I’ve had a most amazing time....”...

Together in one indispensable volume, The Time Machine and The Invisible Man are masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from H. G. Wells, the...

By turns chilling, funny, tragic, and profound, this collection of six Henry James short novels allows readers to experience the full range of his ...

THE NEWLY REVISED SIGNET CLASSIC SHAKESPEARE SERIES Mostly set in Milan, this comedy is the story of two newly-arrived Veronese friends, Valentine...

The Wisdom of the Hindu Mystics The principal texts selected and translated from the original Sanskrit, Upanishad means "sitting near devotedly"...

A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy.Since their initial...

For more than one hundred years H. G. Wells’ classic science fiction tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combinatio...

A collection of T.S. Eliot’s most important poems, including “The Waste Land” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”T. S. Eliot is one of the m...