There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of passionate love than V/uthering Heights. This is the story of the savage, tormented foundl......
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and......
The full texts of the seven extant plays of Sophocles with Paul Roche's revised and updated translations of the Oedipus cycle, and all-new translation......
Two of Sherlock Holmes most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures in one volume. In The Shadow of the Rat, a body is found floating in the ri......
Volume two in a collection of tales representing distinctive genres- from fairy tales to erotica-revealing the customs and societies in the medieval M......
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A masterpiece of Western culture, this is the first attempt to link all the Greek myths in a cohesive whole to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace G......
In The Purgatorio, Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his coming into the presence of ......
Belonging in the company of the works of Homer and Virgil, The Inferno is a moving human drama, a journey through the torment of Hell, an expression o......
A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between p......
Review `This is the highly popular and equally highly vilified Gothic novel, written in 1794. Gruesome, voluptuous, and occasionally tongue-in-cheek......
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' - the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook. 'We'll keep it there until it dies,'......
Edgar Allan Poe received scant recognition for his efforts, until the publication of "The Raven" in 1845. The poem's popularity gave him a new visibil......
Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to end......
In Aristophanes’ most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, prom......
In Forster's most popular novel, he tracks British society's class warfare, as seen by members of three different castes-the wealthy Wilcoxes, the cul......
