Literature Books

This panoramic study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare, now in its updated fourth edition, continues to present the text of Shakespeare as an enjoyable and fruitful experience for students and teachers alike.

Homer's classic tale of the voyage of Odysseus as he tries to return home after the Trojan War.

This translation of The Iliad equals Fitzgerald's earlier Odyssey in power and imagination. It recreates the original action as conceived by Homer, using fresh and flexible blank verse that is both lyrical and dramatic.

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition, offers nearly 3,000 pages per volume of the world's greatest literary landmarks.

Herman Melville's Moby Dick is perhaps the greatest of all American novels. The story of Captain Ahab's obsession with destroying the white whale that crippled him in a previous encounter.

Robert Frost's poetry was always simple and direct, yet strangely deep. This is the only comprehensive volume of Frost's published verse, including the contents of all eleven of his individual books of poetry -- from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962).

The original, Aristotle's short study of storytelling, written in the fourth century B.C., is the world's first critical book about the laws of literature.

A comprehensive anthology of one of the world's most fascinating literary hybrids, from its beginnings up to the present day.

Widely acknowledged as the world's first novel, this astonishingly lovely book was written by a court lady in Heian Japan and offers a window into that formal, mannered world.

This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Purloined Letter", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Raven", and "Murders in the Rue Morgue".

This panoramic study of early 19th-century Russian society, noted for its mastery of realistic detail and variety of psychological analysis, is generally regarded as one of the world's greatest novels.