William Shakespeare's classic play that dramatizes Prospero's plight to escape banishment to a lonely island by his brother Antonio; and includes commentary, explanatory notes, and introduction.
An epistolary novel about a teenage servant in eighteenth-century England who tries desperately to keep her virtue as her master tirelessly attempts to despoil her. Includes an introduction, bibliography, Richardson chronology, and notes.
Presents Charles Dickens's novel in which young John Harmon, supposedly murdered on his way to London to claim his inheritance, takes a job under an assumed name and spies on the people who are trying to secure his late father's fortune; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.
Dante embarks on a spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, with the learned Virgil and the angelic Beatrice as his guides toward moral and social enlightenment.
Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister. The guilt with which he struggles results in a tragedy of tension and terror.
