Classical Literature. An Introduction, Paperback - ***

Contributor(s): Author: Karl MarxAuthor: Friedrich EngelsEditor: David McLellanRegarded as one of the most influential political tracts ever writte...

Reducere. Robert Louis Stevenson s rousing seafaring classic. Fifteen men on a dead man s chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum For sheer storytelling delight ...

Reducere. Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship An idealistic professor transforms an unsophisticated Cockney girl into a refined young la...

Reducere. Celebrated prose retellings of Shakespeare's plays Charles and Mary Lamb have delighted generations of adults as well as children with their famed ...

Description"The Aeneid" tells of the adventures of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, the ancestor of the Romans. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful t...

DescriptionSet in the fictional land of Ruritania, "The Prisoner of Zenda" is a tale of intrigue, crime and scheming villains trying to depose the ...

Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism Heart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recountin...

DescriptionLewis Carroll's follow-up to his classic "Alice in Wonderland", with further adventures of Alice. Classics Illustrated tells this wonder...

Conan Doyle's third novel featuring "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes. In this adventure, Holmes and Dr Watson must investigate a mysterious a...

Zola's great story of the Franco-Prussian War. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form, offering an excellent ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jules VerneENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A group of men set sail to solve the mystery of a sea m...

Reducere. Enduring Literature Illuminated by Practical Scholarship One noble family's descent into madness, mayhem, and murder -- the first play in Sophocles...

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Her name isn't Cordelia, her hair isn't black, and she has no parents. These are the tragical facts of Anne Shirley's life until she comes to Green...

DescriptionAnne Shirley, B.A., arrives in her new home of Summerside scandalously in love. With two years to wait until she can be married, she has...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritat...

This book is an occult classic, written by Karl von Eckartshausen was a German Catholic mystic, author, and philosopher. This book was compiled fro...

"What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?" Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry e...

A haunting study of guilt and lost love In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country ...

The epic tale of Odysseus's journey home - one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature If the Iliad is the world's greatest war ep...

In 1859, Edward FitzGerald translated into English the short, epigrammatic poems (or "rubáiyát") of medieval Persian poet Omar Khayyám. If not a tr...

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Reducere. H. A. Guerber's The Story of the Greeks provides a basic but thorough history of Greece. Beginning with Greek myth and legend, Guerber moves throug...

An incomparable Henry James novel in a new edition Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals i...

Reducere. The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritat...

Reducere. The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritat...

Rainer Maria Rilke s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet. At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a serie...

A new edition of the classic 1994 novel, an observant comedy of smalltown America, with a new introduction by Jon MacGregor. Drury's novel }The Dri...

The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert...

-On what slender threads do life and fortune hang- Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortres...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three pl...

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Reducere. T'ao Ch'ien, (365 - 427, C.E.), one of the most revered poets in classical Chinese literature, is presented in a lucid translation with an introduc...

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Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the...

Classic tales of the fantastic, creepy and weird, with a foreword from Guillermo Del ToroMachen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally c...

La Reine Margot (1845) is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder and duplicity of the French Renaissan...

The powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, now with a new introduction With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him prai...

A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an i...

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European languag...

A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's "The Hearing Trumpet" is the occult twin to "Alice in Wonderland", published with an introd...

A definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde's best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin Bankrupt and with his reputation i...

Reducere. Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes--adventure, war, sex, and morality--through compelli...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carlo CollodiThis anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these l...

Reducere. This Study Guide & Workbook for The Picture of Dorian Gray is designed for classroom use by English, literature, and writing students, as well as l...

Nella Larsen's remarkably candid exploration of shifting racial and sexual boundaries Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambit...

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of ...

Reducere. Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adventure of one man's quest for freedom and vengeance on those who betrayed him. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDE...

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Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an im...

Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading p...

Reducere. Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. FallonJohn Milton's Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen an...

A fine example of a great mathematician's intellect and mathematical style, this classic on linear algebra is widely cited in the literature. The t...

Reducere. The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritat...

Reducere. The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritat...

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will b...

Reducere. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an at...

Reducere. When Dr. Stockmann discovers that the water in the small Norwegian town in which he is the resident physician has been contaminated, he does what a...

Reducere. A Contribution To The Critique Of The Political Economy: Translated From The Second German Edition By N. I. Stone With An Appendix Containing Marx'...

DescriptionFacundo Bernal's A Stab in the Dark (Palos de ciego) is a poetic chronicle of the struggles and joys of the Spanish-speaking community i...

Reducere. DescriptionIncludes 20 to 30 tales, accompanied by an introduction and an historical overview which give readers insights into the culture, the fol...

A Penguin Classics edition containing The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night Shakespearean comedy ha...

Contributor(s): Author: Horace WalpoleAuthor: William BeckfordAuthor: Mary ShelleyWalpole's The Castle of Otranto, Beckford's Vathek, and Shelley's...

A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond Classical rhetoric is ...

Mary Shelley's timeless gothic classic accompanied by the art of legendary illustrator Bernie Wrightson live on in this gorgeous illustrated adapta...

Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more t...

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Reducere. Arthur Waley s brilliant and definitive translation of one of the foremost of all mystical books, Lao Tzu s Tao Te Ching, has become a modern class...

The most popular work by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet, soon to be the subject of Pablo Larrain's acclaimed feature film Neruda starring Gael Ga...

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