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Coming SoonThe Passion of Young Werther
First published in 1774, The Passion of Young Werther was a phenomenon, and had a profound influence on literature and culture on both sides of…
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Coming SoonHobomok: A Tale of Early Times
Lydia Maria Child (1802–80) was one of nineteenth-century America’s most influential writers and activists. Throughout her life, she deployed her pen on behalf of an…
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Coming SoonJournal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year is the most vivid first-person account of a pandemic in the English language. The narrative professes to be…
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Coming SoonProlegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
The Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics serves dual purposes. It is an ideal entry point to Immanuel Kant’s broader thought and to his longer, more…
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A Room with a View
This updated edition of E.M. Forster’s 1908 classic renders A Room with a View newly accessible to contemporary readers. What may appear to be a…
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The Essential Táin Bó Cúailnge and Other Stories from the Ulster Cycle
Táin Bó Cúailnge, frequently referred to as the Táin, is one of the most important works of medieval Irish literature and has been called the…
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Ward Six and Other Stories
This edition brings together seven medically-themed short stories by Anton Chekhov—a practicing physician as well as an accomplished writer who thought deeply about the relationship…
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The Country Wife
The notorious rake Harry Horner pretends to have succumbed to a venereal disease and thus become impotent in order to be allowed to spend time…
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Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a book of enduring relevance that aims to answer the question of how human beings should live. Much, however, has changed…
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The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
For more than two hundred years, Robinson Crusoe’s story was encountered by generations of readers as one text in two parts, such that the second…
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The Secret Garden
The New York Times wrote of The Secret Garden, “Many authors can write delightful books for children; a few can write entertaining books about children…
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The Power of Sympathy and Other Writings
Eighteenth-century readers were just as interested in gossip—especially about the rich and powerful—as contemporary readers. This volume contains the full text of William Hill Brown’s…
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Ethics
Spinoza’s Ethics is one of the most fascinating and systematic works of European philosophy—but also among the most challenging. Due to both the metaphysical complexities…
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front, was an international sensation. Celebrated by countless readers for its…
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Antigone
Sophokles’ Antigone is an ancient play that speaks directly to contemporary issues. From conflicts between authoritarian regimes and those who protest them to struggles over…
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The Pedro Gorino
Captain Harry Foster Dean’s 1929 memoir The Pedro Gorino is the extraordinary story of his time in southern Africa around the turn of the twentieth…
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Socratic Dialogues
These five dialogues depict the life, death, and philosophical methods of Socrates, as portrayed by his student and philosophical successor, Plato. Meno offers some of…
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz first appeared in print in September 1900 and has since become a classic in the world of…
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway’s first major novel, The Sun Also Rises follows American and British expatriates in France and Spain in the years following World War I.…
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Patience
Patience is currently the only one of the four poems in British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x that has not been translated into modern idiomatic…
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Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays
Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays bundles critically edited texts of three thematically allied plays with an extensive primary, secondary, and textual apparatus. The Cherokee Night…
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Walt Whitman: Selected Poetry and Prose
This compact edition offers a substantial selection of Whitman’s writing. Highlights include the full text of the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass, the 1855…
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The Prince
Provocative, brutally honest, and timeless, Machiavelli’s The Prince is one of the most important yet misunderstood writings in history. In it, Machiavelli lays bare the…
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A Youth in Germany
This is the first critical, contextualized edition in English of Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1933), the remarkable autobiographical account of Ernst Toller (1893–1939), one of…