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The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14 : Table Talk (2 Volume Set)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge's nephew, son-in-law, and first editor, Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of Coleridge's remarks as a way of preparing an anthology of th...

Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House. The Wild Duck. Hedda Gabler. The Master Builder

Henrick Ibsen

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Four of the most popular & profound works from the playwright known as the "father of modern theater." This Enriched Classic Edition includes: A concise introduction that ...

The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen

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This 1884 masterpiece may have had its genesis in the hostile reception Ibsen — widely regarded as the father of modern realist drama — had received from the Norwegian pub...

The Return

Joseph Conrad

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An intense, psychologically charged domestic drama, The Return is a brilliant and haunting exploration of the insecurities that lie at the heart of human relationships. Wh...

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

W. B. Yeats

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Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magi...

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Excerpt from Sonnets From the Portuguese, and Other Poems In the very heart and center of our modern world of the nineteenth century there was enacted and immortally sung...

Catharine and Other Writings

Jane Austen

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Jane Austen began writing in her early teens, and filled three notebooks with her fiction. Her earliest work reflects her interest in the novel as a genre; in brilliant sh...

The Major Works

Lord Byron

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This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combi...

Four Plays

Henrik Ibsen

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The plays of Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) are critically acclaimed throughout the world. The father of modern drama, Ibsen broke with theatrical convention...

King’s Bounty

Без автора

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King’s Bounty (рус. королевская награда) — пошаговая стратегия/ролевая игра в жанре фэнтези, выпущенная фирмой New World Computing в 1990 году и являющаяся прямым предшес...

Brand

Henrik Ibsen

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Brand is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is a verse tragedy, written in 1865 and first performed in Stockholm, Sweden on 24 March 1867. Brand was an in...

McTeague

Frank Norris

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A lesser-known American classic, McTeague explores the darker side of success and the pitfalls of marriage for a turn-of-the-century couple. McTeague is the story of a ...

Wessex Tales

Thomas Hardy

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In this, his first collection of short stories, Hardy sought to record the legends, superstitions, local customs, and lore of a Wessex that was rapidly passing out of memo...

The Last Chronicle of Barset

Anthony Trollope

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'All Hogglestock believed their parson to be innocent; but then all Hogglestock believed him to be mad.' Josiah Crawley lives with his family in the parish of Hogglesto...

The People of Hemso

Август Стриндберг

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A feat of straightforward folksy storytelling, The People of Hemso is set on an island in Strindberg's beloved Stockholm archipelago. Written during a difficult period in ...

The Souls of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois

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First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history—it helped alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned his Ph.D. from Harvar...

The Hand of Ethelberta

Томас Харди

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London. Turni...

A Laodicean

Томас Харди

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization...

The Miraculous Revenge

Bernard Shaw

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I arrived in Dublin on the evening of the fifth of August, and drove to the residence of my uncle, the Cardinal Archbishop. He is like most of my family, deficient in feel...

The Trial for Murder

Charles Dickens

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The Trial For Murder, written in 1865, is a short story by Charles Dickens. It is one of Dickens' ghost stories, and is perhaps the best known outside of "A Christmas Carol."

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