Edith Wharton's classic novel, The House of Mirth, is a brillaint expose of the pretense and greed of fashionable New York Society.In The House of Mirth, which helped to establish Edith Wharton’s lite
A newly revised edition of the classic play, in which four bachelors find their vows of chastity and education threatened by four lovely women, features a detailed glimpse into Shakespeare's life, wor
Includes“The Song of Hiawatha”“Paul Revere’s Ride”“The Courtship of Miles Standish”“The Wreck of the Hesperus” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American poet to successfully express the subjec
Ben-Hur is the remarkable saga of a man framed for attempting to murder a Roman official, and condemned to death as a galley slave. Epic in scope, it recreates Imperial Rome from a thrilling sea ba
Tells the story of turn of the century Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson as she tries to save her farm, raise her brothers, and fall in love on the Nebraska prairie.
Oscar Wilde’s infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of h
The story of Victor Frankenstein and the monstrous creature he created has held readers spellbound ever since it was published almost two centuries ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and stea
“Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.” Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man’s nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious—du
Both embodiment and victim of the self-satisfied nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Emma Bovary lives in pursuit of something more, like the world depicted in the romance novels that have come to
The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection. A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682), perhaps the first American
The Rise of Silas Lapham was the first important novel to center on the American businessman and the first to treat its theme with a realism that foreshadowed the work of modern writers. In his story
Hailed as one of the most enduringly popular works of the twentieth century, The Wind in the Willows is a classic of magical fancy and enchanting wit. Penned in lyrical prose, the adventures and misad
From a father of science fiction--a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's core that details encounters with natural hazards, 40 foot mushrooms, and prehistoric beasts After decoding a sc
This comprehensive anthology of original documents traces the American Civil War from its beginnings with the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender and assassination with which it ended. R
“Don Quixote, a lanky scarecrow of a man with his withered face and lantern jaw, dons his rusty armour and mounts his ramshackle steed, Rozinante. With lance couched he still rides through our lives,
This anthology of primary documents traces Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the way Americans—Northern, Southern, black, and white—responded to the changes unleashed by th
?The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe ?To Build a Fire” by Jack London ?The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant ?The Man Who Would Be King” by Rudyard Kipling ?The Gift of the Magi” b
The first of the five Leatherstocking tales recalls Natty Bumpo's adventures as a young man among the Delaware Indians of New York State where he must engage in tribal warfare, forcing him to kill the
Back when New York was still young, so was heiress Catherine Sloper. A simple, plain girl, she grew up in opulence with a disappointed father and a fluttery aunt in a grand house on Washington Square.
A collection of stories by the author of The Yellow Wallpaper features the complete text of "Herland" and such short stories as "Mrs. Elder's Idea" and "The Unexpected." Reissue.
