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Aesop's fables

2008
Translates six hundred of Aesop's ancient fables, and includes notes, an introduction, and a chronology.

Sartor resartus

1999
Presents the original text of Thomas Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" as well as changes made by Carlyle in subsequent editions and appendices containing commentary by Carlyle about his work.

A portrait of the artist as a young man

2000
An autobiographical novel depicting the childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus.

Ben-Hur

1998

The ambassadors

1998
Middle-aged American Lambert Strether, sent to Paris by his patron Mrs. Newsome to find her son Chad and bring him home, finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman, and soon follows suit, letting himself be swept away by the charms of the city and the mysterious Madame de Vionnet.

The last man

2008
Presents Mary Shelley's 1826 novel, which depicts the death of the human race by war and plague in the late twenty-first century; and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, a bibliography, and chronology.

Dracula

2011
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Includes an introduction, a bibliography, a chronology, and explanatory notes.

Gulliver's travels

2008
The voyages of an Englishman carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall; Brobdingnag, a land of giants; an island of sorcerers; and a country ruled by horses.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2008
Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft down the Mississippi River in search of freedom.

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