William Shakespeare After defeat at the Battle of Shrewsbury the rebels regroup. But Prince Hal’s reluctance to inherit the crown threatens to destroy the ailing Henry IV’s dream of...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The First Circle of Dante’s Hell—where the souls of the pre-Christian philosophers are doomed to exist throughout eternity—stands in this novel as a metaphor for certain penal institutions...

William Shakespeare “Why, then the world’s mine oyster.”—The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love,...

Louisa May Alcott Little Women is one of the best-loved children's stories of all time, based on the author's own youthful experiences. It describes the family life of the four March...

Author: William Shakespeare In this quintessential Shakespearean tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that...

James A Michener "A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, Anglos and Hispanics, frontier and settlement, money and power...James Michener is something rare and valuable: an honorable craftsman...

Kate Chopin When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback...

Kate Douglas Wiggin This is the classic story of a spunky little girl named Rebecca. Her dreamy outlook and strict morals cause the type of childhood conflicts that will strike...

Alberto Moravia Subtitle: The Stories of Agostino and Luca. Includes Agostino (original Italian 1944), translated by Beryl de Zoete, and Luca (original Italian "La Disubbidienza" 1948), translated by Angus Davidson.Since...

Friedrich Nietzsche Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche is a collection of aphorisms and short sections. It marks a shift in Nietzsche’s writing toward a more “naturalistic” and skeptical...

Charlotte Bronte There is a climax to everything, to every state of feeling as well as to every position in life William Crimsworth is an orphaned young teacher, with no...

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borge's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here we find the astonishing accounts of Funes, the man who can forget...