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The greatest tragic plays of William Shakespeare—including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.What is tragedy? The Elizabethans defined it as ...

Four Major Plays: Volume I A Doll House • The Wild Duck • Hedda Gabler • The Master Builder Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen’s works, the...

The foremost dramatist of his age, Ibsen changed theatre forever with his realistic dialogue and depiction of contemporary social problems. Here ar...

More than 200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece—a classic work of ...

Three horror icons come together in one indispensable tome—with an introduction by Stephen King. “Within the pages of this volume you will come upo...

This is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph over tyranny. This is the story of Mahatma Gandhi,...

George Orwell’s towering classics, now in a two-book mass market boxed setToday it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is att...

“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato.”—Emerson The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpiec...

From the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a profound novel of spellbinding mystery...An orphan living...

Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America’s best storytellers—and greatest writers. That qualit...

Set sail on an incredible journey with Jonathan Swift's satiric masterpiece.A fantastical tale, Gulliver's Travels tells the story of the four voya...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's incomparable tragic play."To be, or not to be: that is the question"There is arguably no work ...

Dickens’s scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society. Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens’s mos...

In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fict...

Following the death of Richard II, Shakespeare continues his history cycle with part one of the story of Henry IV—a play about power, honor, and re...

Following the death of Richard II, Shakespeare continues his history cycle with part one of the story of Henry IV—a play about power, honor, and re...

Picking up where Henry IV, Part One left off after the Battle of Shrewsbury, Henry IV, Part Two is the story of England's King Henry IV during his ...

Featuring the rise of King Henry V, this history play chronicles England's underdog victory over the French at the Battle of Agincourt during the H...

All three parts of William Shakespeare's Henry VI are combined in this Signet Classics edition of the Bard's historical play.When his father dies, ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a celebrity—acclaimed as a leader in the feminist movement and castigated for he...

With narratives from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this anthology provides a historical and uniquely personal perspective on the immigra...

“One of the major autobiographies of the African-American tradition.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.“It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the...

During the Crusades, Wilifrid, a young Saxon knight, embarks on a series of adventures to prove himself worthy of the princess Rowena, fighting the...