Heart of Darkness (Everyman’s Library Classics) by Joseph Conrad immerses readers in a haunting expedition through colonial Africa, straddling the boundaries of Fiction and Literary Fiction. In Heart of Darkness (Everyman’s Library Classics), Joseph Conrad crafts a journey both physical and psychological—following Marlow as...

The Second Sex (Translation) by Simone De Beauvoir is a groundbreaking work in Women Studies, now reexamined through its global translations. First published in 1949, The Second Sex (Translation) has shaped feminist thought for generations, offering a powerful exploration of womanhood, identity, and social...

In The Castle, Franz Kafka weaves a haunting tale of alienation, bureaucracy, and the endless pursuit of meaning. Arriving in a remote village to work as a land surveyor, the protagonist K. is met with hostility, confusion, and an impenetrable system tied to the...

Wuthering Heights: Everyman's Library Classics by Emily Bronte is a timeless masterpiece that delves into the depths of passion, revenge, and fate. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte weaves a haunting tale of love and obsession, set against the dark and windswept moors. This unforgettable...

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a cornerstone of literary fiction, offering a chilling vision of a future shaped by technological control and loss of individuality. In this masterpiece, Aldous Huxley explores a world where genetic engineering, social indoctrination, and pharmaceutical sedation uphold...

French Poetry by Patrick McGuinness is a beautifully jacketed hardcover collection that spans the ages from medieval to modern, offering a comprehensive introduction to the rich tradition of French-speaking poets. This poetry anthology invites English-speaking readers to explore the works of renowned poets from...

English Romantic Poets by Jonathan Bate is a beautifully curated collection of poetry, bringing together some of the most cherished works from the Romantic era. In this poetry and literature volume, Jonathan Bate selects classics like William Blake's The Tyger and John Keats' Ode...

Collected Stories by Franz Kafka, renowned for his timeless works like The Metamorphosis and The Trial, is an essential collection that exemplifies his mastery of Literary Fiction. These short stories bring Kafka s unique ability to capture the complex and often troubling spiritual life...

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a powerful and complex novel that delves into the depths of human psychology, social critique, and political turmoil. Originally published in The Russian Messenger between 1871 and 1872, Demons is considered one of Dostoyevsky's four great novels, alongside Crime...

Notes from a Dead House (Everyman's Library Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a powerful work of literary fiction that draws from the author s harrowing personal experiences. In 1849, Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for...

When The Origin of Species was first published in 1859, it immediately sparked widespread debate, with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection provoking reactions that continue to resonate in popular science today. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is easily the most...

A bilingual anthology of poems from the sixth century to the present, Arabic Poems is a one-of-a-kind showcase of a fascinating literary tradition. The Arabic poetic legacy is as vast as it is deep, spanning a period of fifteen centuries in regions from Morocco...

Ovid s famous mock epic a treasury of myth and magic that is one of the greatest literary works of classical antiquity is rendered into fluidly poetic English by world-renowned translator Allen Mandelbaum. Roman poet Ovid s dazzling cycle of tales begins with the...

No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the adaptations, imitations...

A beautifully jacketed hardcover selection of 53 darkly witty, whimsical, and macabre short stories by an acknowledged master of the form. Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and featuring well-contrived...

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was perhaps the most intellectually adventurous of the great Romantic poets. A classicist, a headlong visionary, a social radical, and a poet of serene artistry with a lyric touch second to none, Shelley personified the richly various and contradictory energies...

The Middle Ages saw an extraordinary flowering of Persian poetry. Though translations began appearing in Europe in the nineteenth century, these remarkable poets--Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Saadi, Sanai, Attar, Hafiz, and Jami--are still being discovered in the West. The great medieval Persian poets owe much...

The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: Fascinating serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author s process (The...

This beautiful hardcover edition containing all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso includes an introduction by Nobel Prize-winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations.   The Divine Comedy...

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) embodied in his person that deeply cherished, ideal figure of antiquity, the philosopher-king. His Meditations are not only one of the most important expressions of the Stoic philosophy of his time but also an enduringly...