Browsing: Classics

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust,…

Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins   Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming…

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the…

Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by…

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful…

Specially abridged version of Twain’s classic story of the boyhood adventures of mischievous but well-meaning Tom Sawyer, who barely avoids…

An epic adventure and one of the most enduring fables in Western literatureEdmond Dant s has a life that any…

First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief  novel so disturbed critics and the public that it  was banished for decades afterward. Now…

Prince Myshkin, a trusting and compassionate man, struggles to fit into modern society. A classic from the 19th-century Russian master hailed as “the man more than any other who has created modern prose” (James Joyce).

Winner of the National Book Award! Joe Allston, a retired literary agent, goes on an emotional journey to his mother’s birthplace in Denmark in a novel both “elegant and entertaining” (The Atlantic).