Penguin classics

Esther, the illegitimate child of Lady Dedlock and Captain Hawdon, is the ward of Mr. Jarndyce and lives with him at Bleak House.

Presents over twenty mystery stories featuring popular detective Sherlock Holmes and his devoted sidekick Dr. Watson.

Presents modern-verse translations of Homer's classic epic of the Trojan War and his adventure story chronicling Odysseus's journey home.

Contains three plays representative of Ibsen's development.

Twain returns to Europe, joined by characters based on his friends, on an eccentric journey through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

An account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's experiences as a pilot.

A reprint of the author's work of political philosophy addressing the idea that obedience to authority, especially in the form of a large bureaucracy such as the political state, is really just a natural response of human nature.

Presents a collection of short stories of American Puritanism, Native Americans, and the Revolution by nineteenth-century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, and includes a brief profile of the author and notes on the text.

Presents the third in a series of novels in which frontiersman Natty Bumppo, nearing the end of his life, sets off for new adventure in the region of the Great Lakes.

Presents selections from the journals of Captain James Cook in which he provides a personal account of his three exploratory voyages to New Zealand, Australia, and islands of the Pacific in 1768, 1772, and 1776. Includes maps, a glossary, and indexes of people and places.