Prestwick House literary touchstone classics

Presents the text of the medieval play "Everyman," the story of a man who must face final judgment on the strength of his good deeds; and includes "The Second Shepherd's Play," another mortality play.

Presents the script of the late nineteenth-century drama that examines the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity.

Presents a collection of fifty-six American poems from colonial times through the twenty-first century.

A scientist invents a time machine and uses it to travel into the future, where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.

Upton Sinclair's classic 1906 novel describing the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young struggling immigrant.

The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.

Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader Kurtz.

The tragic story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer married to a hypochondriac and in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.

Presents Stephen Crane's classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.