The Good Soldier is Ford Madox Ford\"s masterpiece, a riveting story and one of the most compelling examples of early Modernism: a virtuoso performance of how to use an \\\"unreliable narrator....

Three notebooks of Jane Austen\"s early writings survive. The pieces probably date from 1786 or 1787, around the time that Jane, aged 11 or 12, and her older sister and collaborator Cassandra left school. By this point Austen was already an......

When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland\"s past and finally unearths the guilty truth, the......

How did the camel get his hump? Why won\"t cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere. Kipling\"s imagined answers to such questions draw on the......

\"Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...\" In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women\"s intellectual freedom......

\"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation\" In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden......

Designed for both general readers and students of English literature at all levels, this edition of Trollope\"s novel contains an introduction, notes and comments on the text....

Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror... The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and......

This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Included are The Roaring Girl, The......

You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law. Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was his reputation in Renaissance Florence. A renowned......

This entirely new translation includes Petrarch\"s short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux, and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere, Petrarch\"s best-known work in Italian....

As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In \"The Death of Ivan Ilyich\" and the other works in this volume, Tolstoy conjures characters who, tested to the......

SARTOR RESARTUS (\\\"The Tailor Retailored\\\") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world, and the large questions of faith and understanding....

\"I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.\" Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men....

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by......