Author: William Shakespeare One of Shakespeare's most popular and accessible plays, Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a...

William Shakespeare An international team of scholars offers: modernised, easily accessible texts ample but unobtrusive academic guidance attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history informative...

Mark Twainn 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West, and Roughing It is his hilarious record of his travels come to life with...

Omar KhayyamTranslated by Edward FitzGeraldIn the eleventh century, in Persia, there lived a mathematician named Ghiyathuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibrahim al-Khayyami--or, Omar, son of Abraham, the tent-maker. Omar wrote poetry,...

Francis Leopold McClintock January 1, 1998 by Konemann

John Galsworthy John Galsworthy OM (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some...

Samantha Learns a Lesson: A School Story(American Girl: Samantha #2)Susan S. AdlerSamantha attends Miss Crampton's Academy, a private school for proper young ladies. Samantha wants to win the gold medal...

Thomas H CookShortlisted for the 2014 Edgar Award and Barry Award for Best NovelThomas H. Cook is peerless in finding the humanity behind crime. In one of his greatest novels...

Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku." HERE...

Abby Green"Shocking secrets of the sands!"When she gave herself to Sheikh Salman in Paris five years ago, Jamilah Moreau fantasized about wedding dresses and happy endings. But Salman was driven...

Jerome Rothernberg Jerome Rothenberg holds a premier place in the American avant-garde. The poems in  Seedings , his newest collection, leap across history. Past and future become entwined, and the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo EmersonBorn in Boston in 1803, Ralph Waldo Emerson has been called a "cosmic optimist" and the first of American Romantics. Enormously influential and controversial in...