With an introduction by W.H.Auden and commentary from Helen Vendler, among others, this volume presents all of Shakeseare\"s non-dramatic poetry in one place....

They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference really is becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing and of roles......

From the discovery of a strange parchment in an old book to the fantastic descent through a dormant volcano into a subterranean world of danger and beauty, A Journey to the Center of the Earth is as wonderfully entertaining today as when it was first published....

A vulgar and licentious college football captain becomes a messenger of God as a suave evangelist preacher....

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, one of the world\"s great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans. In 1757, as the English and the French war over American territory, the frontier scout Hawkeye - Natty Bumppo - risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Huron country....

The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, but it is stolen again that very night. No one is above suspicion as the indefatigable Sergeant Cuff pieces together a series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand. T....

The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London\'s vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author\'s unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behavior of humans and animals facing nature at its cruelest....

King Lear is Shakespeare’s bleakest and profoundest tragedy, a searing dramatization of humankind at the edge of apocalypse that explores the family and the nature of being with passion, poetry, and dark humor....

In the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. A sterling example of Dickens\'s genius for character, dramatic construction, and social satire, this novel was hailed by Edmund Wilson as a \"masterpiece\"....

Mowgli, lost in the deep jungle as a child, is adopted into a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger, Mowgli is allowed to run with the wolf pack under the protection of Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the brown bear who teaches wolf cubs the Laws of the Jungle....

In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers....

From the agony of Charles Dickens’ disenchantment with the Victorian middle class comes a novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values—this is the story of the orphan Pip’s trials and tribulations among London’s high society circles....

Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and that serves as a powerful symbol of English tradition and stability....

Two sisters of opposing temperaments who share the pangs of tragic love provide the theme for Jane Austen\'s dramatically human narrative. Their mutual suffering brings a closer understanding between the two sisters - and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense....

Red brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Reason, facts, and statistics. This is the world of Coke-town, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens\'s most powerful and unforgettable novels....