Book
Come Rack! Come Rope!
Book
The Light Invisible
The Light Invisible presents a series of interconnected supernatural short stories by the celebrated and prolific English author Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), a member of the famed Benson literary clan. …
Book
[No Title]
Book
[No Title]
Book
Brideshead Revisited
Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class …
Book
The Canterbury Tales
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one …
Book
Utopia
First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477–1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept …
Book
[No Title]
Book
Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife
“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a …
Book
Kristin Lavransdatter, III: The Cross
“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate A Penguin Classic Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a …
Book
Quo Vadis
Translated by Stanley F Conrad. Set around the dawn of Christianity with amazing historical accuracy Quo Vadis? won Sienkiewicz the Nobel Prize. Written nearly a century ago and translated into …
Book
With Fire and Sword
The period embraced in this set is "one of the most dramatic and fruitful of results in European Annals - remarkable for work and endeavor, especially in the Slav world, …
Book
[No Title]
Book
The Deluge
An historical novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. A sequel to "With fire and sword."
Book
The Betrothed
“The great plague novel.” —The New Yorker Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, …
Book
[No Title]
Book
The Woman of the Pharisees
A self-righteous Frenchwoman uses her strict religious principles as an excuse to interfere in the lives of others, bringing them only disaster
Book
Don Quixote
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho …